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When I was 7 I believed that swallowed gum would stay in my stomach forever. I also believed that the fingernail bits I chewed off and swallowed stayed in my stomach forever. I sometimes lay in bed with a feeling of dread, imagining a huge, mutant ball of mingled gum and fingernails getting bigger and bigger until it would burst out of my stomach! (Good thing Alien was still decades in the future!)
Eris
I saw my cousin chewing gum one day when i was 3 or 4 and i asked him what it was and he said gum. I asked where he got it from and he pointed to his mouth. I thought gum was your actual gums but it never came out for me to chew. His was green anyways.... not really the same thing, huh?
dont swallow gum, it will stick to your stomach , your whole life.
nancy
my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.
Victoria
When i was about 4 my mom always told me not to sleep with gum in my mouth,and if i did it would get in my hair. Well i had always thought that your body would automatically make the gum go to your head and get stuck in your hair! I thoought this until i was 10.
gum lover
When I believed that if you swallowed too much gum, then a gum tree will form in your stomach. Once it gets too many leaves, you explode.
Caroline
I was certain until a few years ago that accidentally swallowed gum would stay in your gut for precisely 7 years (to the second) and stick to other food so it would get really big and gross. Then, on the 7-year mark, you would poo out a seemingly endless string of stretchy, accumulated food. Nasty.
Gullible Child
i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back
cope
When I was about 5 (in the mid 70s) there was a Juicyfruit gum commercial in which people danced around and picked packs of gum off of a giant Juicyfruit tree. I dug a hole in our backyard, buried a pack of Juicyfruit in it, and faithfully watered it for weeks before my mom finally set me straight.
Lisa
I used to believe that if you swallowed bubble gum, it would take seven or eight years for your body to digest it!
kero9x
When I was young, my brother convinced me that if I chewed a piece of gum for long enough it would turn into a chicken bone.
I used to think that all the black spots on the sidewalk were pieces of gum that had been stepped on so many times that they got all dirty and turned black. Gross!
Aretia
If you swallowed chewing gum, it would grow a tree out your belly button. Same for watermelon seeds, except watermelons would grow, not tree's.
Liz
When i was little my mom always use to say that If i swallow gum that it gets stuck in my tummy, and then i will never be able to eat, so once when i chewing gum i swallowed it by accident so i started to cry, so my mom came in the living room and told me why are you crying so i said because i am never going to be able to eat all because i swallowed the gum so she started to laugh.
Esmeralda
i use to belive that chewing gum was a tablet so you only had it if you were ill
Adam
When I was young, someone told me (probably my Mom) that if I swallowed bubble gum it would make my ribs stick together. I immediately got a mental image of two of my ribs with bubble gum sticking to both of them. The few times my children have swallowed gum, I have gotten that mental image in my head and quickly scolded them. Even though I know it doesn't stick to your ribs... right. lol.
Darren Ebbing
I remember my dad use to tell me if you swallow too much bubble gum that a giant bubble would blow up in your stoumach and you would blow up too. I believed him until I turned seven years old! I still remember it until this day!
Isabell, TX
When I was about 2 or 3, the shop across the street from my house sold these flavoured bubblegum fthings like banana to even chocolate milkshake, i think it was about 42 flavours they had and the greatest of all it was each one of them had a different colour wrap, depending on the flavour. So with a bit of help from the nanny me would go to the shop and id get at least 3 gums a day and of course id end up swallowing it - just because it tasted SO GOOD that i couldnt resist myself to do it -. Thing is though, my 2 older sisters (9 and 18 years old) would tell me the gum was gonna get stuck in my stomach and that i would get such a big belly that my parents were gonna find out i had been eaten gum all day. So the ONLY and MARVELOUS solution -according to my "caring" sisters was to take a tablespoon of cooking oil to "grease it all down" and "release" the stuck bubblegum from my sytem.
This carried on for about 3 weeks - and i agreed to it just because i loved bubblegum so much - until i told the nanny my stomach hurt and that i kept having diarrheas, both my sisters were grounded and forced to eat something nasty like broccoli everyday for 3 weeks.
PS: i still swallow gum... and im 23
Pilar
my mother always told me that if you swallow your gum there will grow a bubblegum tree in your stomach and it would grow out of your belly button if you would swallow your gum for the second time
Steffie
When I was very small, I remember sitting in my mom's lap in the car(it wasn't going) and she popped some gum in my mouth. Just as she said 'don't swallow that' I had. I thought it was normal food. She panicked and told me that it would stay in my stomach forever.
Then she gave me another piece, as long as I promised I would never swallow it.
Unfortunately I am allergic to gum now(aspartame) and can't have it...
Nitori
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