when i was little i used to think there was a worm way up your nose and if you picked your nose too far up it would bite your finger off

kyle money

Many of us kids were told, when we were small, that we each had a snail living deep up our noses, and if we stuck our fingers far enough up there, we'd find out how the nose-snails were different from the regular dirt-snails: They had teeth, and would bite the tips of our fingers off.

Kate

when i was a kid i used to believe that the people in the pictures could see me so i never picked my nose, even in the presence of pictures

"logan"

ok i thought that since i picked my nose when i was little.... i thought there was a little doll in my nose and she would come around and "re-stock" my nose every night with a minni wheelbarrow when i was sleeping and when i sneezed i was afraid she was in there and than she would be lost forever!

Emily

When I was little, my friend's mother told me there was a snail that lives inside of your nose, and if you pick your nose, he will chew off your fingernail, and after that, he would bite your finger off!

Erika

I used to think that if i wasnt picking my nose (which was a habit of mine until i became eight) there were little dwarven miners, looking for snot. (what in the world was i thinking?!?!?) I got this belief when my my caught me picking my nose and said "Oi, looking for gold, Stevie?"

Stevensonbak

When i was in the 1st grade, i had a habit of eating my boogers.(disgusting, right?) I sat in the very front of the room, and during a spelling test, i just had this craving to pick my nose. I dont know why, i just did. and i "accidentally" dropped my pencil under my desk. And when i went to go bend down to get my pencil, i would pick my boogers and eat them.

ewwwwww!!

Choo Choo Train

My dad lost half of his ring finger a couple of days before I was born so I never knew him with it. All my siblings and I always had our fingers in our noses so he would tell us that he was picking his nose one day when he was little, in the car and his mother hit a bump and half his finger got stuck up there. We didn't stop picking, we just stopped picking in front of him but my younger brother believed it long enough to pass it on to other kids his age.

KLR

I used to belive that there was gold in my nose because pepole would always say that i was "diggin' for gold"!

addicted nose picker

When I was younger my dad told me that if you picked your nose too much, that you would pull the lining from your brain! I believed that until I was 11 years old.

Julia

when i was young my grandmother told me i would get nosecancer through picking my nose. i believed this for many years.

sektorian

When I was little, my mom told me that if you picked your nose and ate the boogers that you would get worms in your poop.

Anon

I used to believe that the nose was a mine where little miners dig something and when I picked my nose, I was giving them a hard day at work... So I didn't picked my nose... ever.

Kate

When I was little, my mom told me that there was a snail that lived in my nose, and if I picked my nose the snail would bite my finger off!

Lady J

When I was about 3 or 4 I was eating my boogers when my gramdma told me that boogers were actually dead bugs. Never did that again!!

What?!

When I was little, my mom told me not to pick my nose. A friend told me that the little green things were aliens, and if I didnt pick them out, they would get into my brain and invade. My mom told me that they were nice aleins, and instead of picking them out I should be nice and use a tissue and just blow them out.

Mary Cameron

When I was little I was told that if I kept picking my nose my nostrils would get stretched out and people would stare at me as an adult.

Anon

when i was about 6 my auntie told me that if you pick your nose a big tree would grow out of your bellybuton, this amused my brother and one day he thought that it would be a goood idea to super glue a flower in his belly button to try and scare me the best bit about it that he was lefft with a bit of the stem and supergglue in his belly button

beth

Man. When I was little - like, very little. Maybe three or four? My grandmother used to tell me that, if I picked my nose, my eyeballs would pop out. According to my parents, I /bawled/ the first time she told me that.

Katarina Cosette

I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.

Jenny