A friend told me and a few other friends the other day that her mom had told her when she was little that if she inhaled petrol fumes she would die, so every time her parents went into a gas station, my friend would hold her breath!
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I remember once a friend of mine told me that when ever you hold in your pee it would make your balls stronger— Zao
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen
- A friend on mine thought that smoking menthal cigarettes would make his breath minty fresh.Anon
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus