I think they said something like "it's not nice to breathe when others can't!" It was some kind of rule on our schoolbus that you weren't "cool" if you couldn't hold your breath all the way past.
2007-09-29 23:32:17 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I always ran as fast as I could. I knew that if I didn't I wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance. I was high spirited as a kid.
2007-09-30 15:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a kid? Gosh, I still do. Yeah..... some of those childhood games just ultimately become habits. I gotta tell you though. One suggestion........ never hold your breath while touring Arlington cemetary. It's a huge place! You'll never hold it through the whole thing. And trust me........ it's embarrassing as heck when you pass out and the paramedics have to come to revive you and then rush you to Walter Reed Medical Center where the president is busy getting a labotomy so you are enundated with reporters all wondering why some southern blonde ditz was holding her breath in a cemetary. NOT that this has happened to me ......... lately.
2007-09-29 23:45:39 · answer #2 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in Greenland.
There is no wood. It is all imported and in short supply.
We collected all the crosses at the graveyard because we needed to build a den to house our "secret club society".
My dad and my friends' dads' were sneaking around in the middle of the night and putting them all back.
And it wasn't what my dad wanted to do since he was a policeman.
I was 8 years old and needless to say:I never did that again.
And no I didn't hold my breath like doing it
2007-09-30 22:18:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi Lt Dan!!
I actually have always had a fascination with graveyards. It's more of a history/archeology interest than a morbid one. I love to read the dates and see how old the person was. Any personal messeges left there make it even more interesting.
2007-09-30 01:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by Kim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yup, and some of those grave yards in NJ were MILES long! Also we used to try to hold our breaths all the way thru the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels!
2007-09-30 00:58:52 · answer #5 · answered by SavvySue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my place,there was no custom of holding the breath, but I remember I used to run while crossing the grave yard, on way to school.
2007-09-29 23:38:18 · answer #6 · answered by yogeshwargarg 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Under bridges we used to hold our breath... Why I don't know, there was no logic to it!
When going past graveyards it was customary to run like the wind lest a zombie caught you!
2007-09-29 23:36:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I never heard that...
I usually just sat very still, trying to fend of some of the "feelings" I would get around certain graves and be really, really thankful when we made it past.
I'm not much into "cool" anyway-- I am happiest just being my lovable, unique self!
2007-09-30 08:05:27 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I not at all heard of the keeping the breath ingredient. mom used to make me and my brother flow to beautify graves as quickly as a year. He, my brother, informed me not at all to stroll on a grave as a results of fact the resident of the grave might come back and hang-out you. He constantly waited for a reliable 2d then he might sneak up in the back of me and supply a huge push to deliver me impressive for the period of a grave. I not at all have been given haunted although.
2016-10-10 01:18:16 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids used to say if you didn't hold your breath, you were breathing in all the wandering spirits from the cemetary...
2007-09-30 00:25:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋