(no subject)

[rhyme]

It isn't really anything that's really worth mentioning, but I grew up down the street from a cemetary.

I also, for reasons I can't remember, used to do the "hold your breath while you pass a graveyard" superstition.

It wasn't a particularly large one, but it turns out that it is relatively difficult while you are on foot, so that killed the habit fairly quickly.

(I still do the "hold your breath while you're driving through a tunnel" thing sometimes, but that's mostly for bragging rights.)

Comments

[0x.livejournal.com]

I still do that.

[drcanadianninja.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine the driving through a tunnel one, mainly because most times I've driven through a tunnel, it's taken three minutes.

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

Most of my tunnels are short tunnels.

[tarocake.livejournal.com]

Haha, I did that too. Still do. I don't know why it's a superstition either so I looked it up.

One answer was, "I always heard that it was because we shouldn't breathe when other people can't." and then this other website had a whole list of them, some of them rather morbid.

[ririkit.livejournal.com]

I think the version I learned was that so you don't breath in spirits and get possessed.

Or at least, something to that extent. It was patently ridiculous, because I never did anything of the sort when I went to visit graveyards on purpose.