i was raised on tom waits music and whereas most people believed that it was bad luck to not hold one's breath passing a graveyard i always whistled.
A childhood belief about people

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 still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- i used to believe the graveyard shift was when you worked in a graveyardAnon
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx