At school we all believed that if you swallowed chewing gum instead of spitting it out, every piece wedged in your lungs and eventually you could not breathe anymore. I never swallow gum, thirty years later!

Lisa

I used to believe that the little plastic size tags you got on hangers in clothes shops were chewing gum!

Anon

I used to belive that birds might be able to blow a bubble. I thought when someone spits thier gum out the bird would try to eat it but get it stuck on thier beak and when they tried to sing they could blow a bubble, or I thought. I thought a lot of things.

Shaina

I used to believe that chewing gum was bad for you because my Grandad told me that it was made out of the soles of Indians' bare feet!

(Native Americans')
p.s Like the ones on John Wayne films!

marti the party

When I was a kid I thought
If a person swallowed gum that it would stick to your insides for seven years

Angela

my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy

ms pouty

i used to believe that if i swollowed my gum trees would grow in my stoamch:)

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My friends told me in junior school that if I chewed gum and swallowed it that it would give me appendicitis!....Guess what I did and it didn't!!

Jayne

I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!

jordan

my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.

stuart hayward

When my best friend and I were 10 or 11 years old we decided to test the gum swallowing theory. I chewed and swallowed a whole pack of grape gum and marked it on the calender to see if it would come out in seven years. We also planned an elaborate funeral if I died instead. Two days later at her grandmothers house, I pooped out a turd with wads of purple gum stuck to it putting to rest the seven years theory. We were also relieved that I didn't die.
How did we celebrate? MORE GUM!

Tiff

when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.

john

When I was 4 years old, I asked my baby-sitter why she didn't chew gum in bed at night, and she said that it was because when she woke up, it would end up in her hair, and from then until I was 11, I thought that if you slept with gum in your mouth, it somehow fell to the back of your head and came out through your hair follicles (though I obviously didn't know that word at such a young age).

DryadDreams

I was told that if I swallowed gum that it took years and years to digest. And when it finally did I would be constapated for a long time because of it.

Angela Madeleine Helene Alexander Rector-Roy

My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!

Anon