I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.

Lindsay

I used to believe that if I swallowed gum I would bubbles when I 'trumped'.

Anon

When I was about 9 I was told that if you swallowed your gum then it would be in your digestive tract for 8 years. So I figured that with all the gum I must have swallowed already I'd have gum inside of me for the rest of my life. Thankfully I learned that gum is digested just like everything else. :) I still don't like swallowing my gum anymore though. 0_o

Bunny

When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.

Barbie

when i was younger my big brother told me that the glucose-fructose in chewing gum ingredients was what made it sticky and that it was actcually spider legs. I trusted him for 3 years.

candy-chan

When I was about five and learning how to chew gum, I thought that every time I accidently swallowed it that my parent would ge a message in their head saying that I did. Since I thought they already new i swalled it, I'd tug on my dad's pant leg and just say, "Sorry Dad".

~Anonymous~

When my brother and I were younger (he is older) we used to play a game called blowing bubbles (with bubble gum) and one day we were playing blowing bubbles and he made a super large bubble and then he leaned down, only to pop the bubble in his belly button. Needless to say it took about an hour to get all the gum out of his bellybutton.

Karen

I used to believe that when chewing gum lost its taste it wasn't sticky. I stuck some flavourless chewing gum in my hair and it stuck. I hid it from my mum because I knew she would freak out. After 2 weeks she noticed and I had to have a huge chunk of my hair cut out.

Anon

I used to believe that if you chewed and then swallowed your gum, you would not be able to poop for a week. I was 10.

Victoria

One of my uncles told me that fat people got that way by swallowing watermelon seeds. So every time I swallowed one I was terrified. Another uncle (yeah, great ones I have) told me that you got fat by swallowing gum, because it would blow into a bubble in your stomach. Needless to say, I was very careful when I chewed gum.

Kristin

As a child I would swallow my bubble gum when I was through chewing it. I didn't see the harm in it until my Grandmother caught me one day. She began to explain that if I were to swallow my gum that watermelons could possibly grow in my stomach. That was the last time I ever swallowed gum again. And, no, I never did grow any watermelons.

Crazygurl

one day i was chewwing gum before i went to bed and i almost ended up falling asleep so my dad came in and said hey i wouldnt chew that gum when you are slepping i asked why and he said that a little boy went to sleep and the gum grew and ate him. So ever since i never chewed gum at night.

haliey

I used to swallow my gum so one day my dad told me that when I swallow it, it would get stuck with all the other gum and form into a ball and stick to my organs and then the docors would have to surgically remove it. I still swallowed my gum anyway.. and still do!

Cass

When I was little, my mom would tell me that if I swallowed chewing gum, my stomach would stick together.

Hadla

if you chewed chewing gum are your teeth will rote and fall out

gummbi

I used to belive that if you swalled
chewing gum that moles would cover your whole body.well affter 2 days I had 4 moles on my arm! well affter 2 weeks no more moles so I stoped beliving that.

how stupid was I