Once, I believed that it took 7 years to digest a swallowed piece of gum. I have no idea where I got THAT from.

Hey, I rhymed. =)

Some Idiot

i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this

sunney jim of the pearl

When I was about 8, my mom joked to me that if you swallowed chewing gum it'd gum up your guts.
I spent weeks terrified of swallowing chewing gum and that I'd die. One day I fell of my bike and swallowed some by accident. I ran back home, crying like crazy. My mom asked me what was wrong, and started laughing when I explained that it wasn't the fall, but the "chewing gum thing". They still rib me about that.

Alex

When I was a kid I used to chew gum all the time. My mum used to tell me that if you swallowed it, it would get wrapped around your ribs and get stuck in your chest. Quite a troubling image and i still get nervous if i cough with gum in my mouth

Anon

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

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

When i was like 6 or 7, i had a cousin that was 3 years older that me. She ALWAYS swallowed her gum, and of course, i wanted to be JUSt like her. she told me not to because you would explode and the doctors would have to take out your belly so you couldnt eat any more. i loved sandwiches and still wanted to eat them so i stopped swallowing gum. 6 Months later she had surgery and they removed this thing bc she swallowed TOO MUCH GUM!she took it in a jar and told me she couldnt eat anymore so i started crying cuz i felt bad. heehee...hipacrit!

Bubble Burster!

My grandmother used to tell my mother not to swallow her gum. She said that the body couldn't digest the gum and that it would just stick to her colon for her whole life. My mom says that she used to picture this tube covered in gum and worried that it would get clogged.

Miss Julie

My grandmother would tell us that if we chew, chewing gum at night we actually chew the bones of the dead. Until today I have a bad feeling when I pop a chewing gum at night

Anon

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

when i was a little wee girl, i always used to swallow my gun instead of spiting it out. well one horrible day, my mom told me that if u swallow your gum one more time, it will not digest in my stomach. i rubbed my stomach and i just started to cry. then i thought of myself in 17 years and i imagened my self as a big bellied girl who no one talked to. because i swalloed so much gum. it made me so sad.

joslyne anderson

When I was young my grandad told me that chewing gum was made from the soles of Native Americans feet. I believed him!

Marti - Scotland

when i was 6, my friends told me that if u swallowed bubble gum, it would sit in your stomach FOREVER & stick your sides together. i actually believed them.
that was until 10 when i swallowed a bubble gum & im still fine till now!

Bells

My dad once told me that if everyone threw their gum out of their car windows, the city wouldn't have to fill all the pot holes. I was 12 before I realized he was joking. Unfortunately, I throw like a girl (because I am) and hit the car next to us instead of the street. That took some 'splanin.

Dannie

Once when my mom was at the dentist and there was this guy with HORIBLE teeth, and he was sitting next to me when i was chewing my gum, and he told me that gum was made from a cats toung, and i believed and spit it out right that second, and when we were leaving i told my mom what he had said and she said it was true, i was devestated! lol

...~~~!1!YOU~~~~!!!

i used to believe that if u swallowed gum it would stay inside of u for about ten years then eventually u would digest it. i dont rememberhow old i was...maybe about 8 or so. heh.

~philbert~

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

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 a friend told me chewing gum was made from cat guts, they got the guts and added flavour to it, it never stoped me chewing though

Anon

My mom didn't want me to choke on bubblegum when i was younger, so she always used to tell me that if i ate bubblegum while riding in the car, or talked with it in my mouth, it would automatically roll down my throat and would choke.

bubblegum chewer