I use to think that if you swallowed your gum
that it would stay in your tummy forever
so I aways pictured my gum as a tree sump that you sat on
and deers and rabbits and trees were in my tummy.
It looked like something out of Bambi.

Rebecca

When I was a little girl, my soon-to-be stepmother would tell me that if I swallowed my gum, a big gum tree would grow in my belly and it would take 7 years to come out.

Kelsi

My granny always used to tell me that if I swallowed my gum everytime, it would get stuck and the doctors would have to operate on me.

Taylor (14)

I used to believe that when you swallowed gum. All of the gum you swallowed before would stay in your stomach and turn into a giant ball of gum. Eventually becoming too big, causing your stomach to burst.

Cody

When I was 8 years old I use to chew bubble gum and swallow it because I didn't know where it would go. Then my teacher took me that swallowing gum will stay in my stomach and know I 'm 9 years old and I'm spliting out my chew gum in the trash. And for my teacher thank God we have internet.

Kenney Watkins

I used to think that when you chewed gum you chewed GUN! Boy, I couldn't believe they'd sell guns to minors. lol

Doublemint Gun

When I was little, my sister used to tell me not to swallow my gum because it would make my guts stick together.

Rob

I belive that if you swallow more than one chewing gum you want die because chewing gum is just like any other pease of candy. my mom said that gum is a waste of time.

zanaija

when i was younger..my aunt baby-sitted me alot....and my anut was a real gum person....everyday,when she came to my house ,she had a piece of gum in her mouth..and she still has gum everyday till this day....well i would always ask for a piece of gum,she gave me a piece,but every time that she did,she told me not to swallow it or i wuld get sick.well me being 3 or 4 years old..i didnt listen and i always swalled it...and then i would get another piece and swalled it..my aunt knew what was happening and i kept doing it becuase i thought that it would make a rainbow in my stomach...i was such a weird child..and then the worst thing of it was that..i always got sick after...and from that day on..i never swolled gum..evan if it did make a rainbow in my stomach..haha=)

Courtney .E

When I was little i thought that if you ate too much gum it would all gather in your butt-hole, and the only way out was to have a doctor squirt orange juice (like from oranges) up your butt, through a tury baster.

Extrodinarily Dissillusioned

I had been always swallowing gum when it was bad for me and now I've stopped. This is because one time when after chewing gum. I was asked what happened to it. I said that I chewed on it and let it down my throat. My brother replied that swallowing gum is bad for me. I kept telling him I didn't swallow it. But he kept trying to correct me. This was because I thought to 'swallow' meant to eat with just a few bites when it had actually meant to put from inside your mouth to your throat.

Anon

When I was about 5 years old, I had chewing gum for the first time, and I was told I couldn't swallow it. However, I ended up swallowing it anyway, and concluded that I was the only person who could swallow gum and that I was smarter than everyone else, because they couldn't swallow gum.
A couple of years later, my brother told me that if you swallow chewing gum, it stayed in your stomach for seven years, and I believed him. I was then terrified of swallowing gum, and I counted how many years it would take before the gum I'd previously swallowed would come out...

Sarah W

That if you wet a sweet wrap and put it in the freezer overnight, you'd get chewing gum.

Roxie van Renbsurg

i ued to belive when i was 5, that is u swallowed to much chewing gum, u would turn in to a giant buble and float away to hevan!

bumblebee

My mom told me that gum couldn't be digested, so you shouldn't swallow it.

I thought this meant that is I swallowed my gum is would just sit at the bottom of my stomach for the rest of my life.

So every time I chewed gum and did swallow it, I imagined that that chunk went down and added itself to the pile of undigested gum.

Lauren Rither

when i was like 6 my older brother told me that if i swallowed my gum it would stick to my insides and block all the food from getting to my stomach so i was terrified for years!!! then i realized differently

Anon

my next door neighbour told me that if i swallowed my chewing gum i would blow bubbles out of my bum...that was right after id swallowed the gum!

bubble bum

I used to believe that if I swallow a gum, I wont be able to poop again cause it would stuck there....guess u know what I mean with THERE! :p

Lulu

I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum, your intestines would get stuck together!

vudeala