my grandma used to chew gum all the time... grandmas usually would have hard candy but mine had gum 24-7! i thought she chewed gum so much because it helped keep her fake teeth stay in her mouth...

Emily

My mum told me that if you ate fruit pips they were stored in your appendix, and that if you ate too many you would get appendicitis. She also told me the one about chewing gum wrapping round your heart if you swallowed it. It's a wonder I ate anything when I was small.

Caroline

I used to believe that the bubble gum medicine was really made of bubble gum. i believed this until i was 16.

Shawn

I used to belive that, if you swallowed your chewing gum, you'd fart bubbles...

Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA

as a little kid, i was really good at blowing bubbles as big as my head and blowing a bubble inside a bubble and stuff like that. my older cousin got so fed up with all the popping noises i was making (or maybe it was she couldnt blow a bubble to save her life and she got jealous) she told me that little people thrive inside the bubbles i blow and every time i pop a bubble they can escape. she told me that they all meet in some deserted cave in mexico and that once enough bubbles have popped and there are enough of them, they will slaughter every person in the whole world. i still kept blowing bubbles though, just making sure to slap my hands closed on the air my bubbles popped in to kill all the little "people"...

Stupid Bubble Blower

I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.

Missa

Once when I was about 6 or 7 I was playing with my cousins and sisters and they knocked me which Made me swallow my chewing gum. I freaked out and went and told my mum and dad. Well Thats when My father told me that it would block my butt up so i couldnt do a poo, and it would all build up and i'd explode... I freaked out even more and started crying, my dad just laughed I mean seriously what type of father does that to a child!!

Jessica Karli

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

I swallowed gum once when I was little, and I told my dad about it so he'd give me another piece. He told me that when I tried to poop later, I'd blow a bubble out my butt! I totally believed him! Now I tell my friends' kids the same thing, and they swallow it on purpose to see if it's true. :-) Hee hee!

Amy

When I was about 5 years old, I had a bad habit of swallowing gum. One day my grandmother told me if I swallowed too much gum, it would stick my "poopers" together and I would never be able to go to the bathroom again. I was so terrified of accidentaly swallowing another piece that I didn't chew gum again until I was about 12.

Brandy

I used to believe that chewing gum stayed in your stomach for seven years. At thirteen I decided I needed to loose weight and started swallowing gum to fill up my stomach so I'd feel full all the time and wouldnt want to eat food.

Jessy

Someone told me that Chewing Gum, if swollowed, would stay in your digestive track for up to seven years. But after asking 4 different doctors and 2 dentists I have come to the conclusion that is not true.
It is unhealthy to swollow it though.

Tully

This is something I made someone else belive:
I made my little brother bellieve that grass was gum! It was so funny! I told him it would taste better after a while and that is was 'cool' It was funny until my mom found out, my dad laughed, but they both grounded me.

Helena Way

I was told that Hubba Bubba and Bubbalicious contained spider's eggs and that's what made it so crackly and poppable. EW- I still hate gum.

suepersue

I used to belive that if you swallowed gum then it will stick to your butt and your butt will stick together which will not let you poop! I always used to swallow my gum and my mom told me that so I wont choke!

Anon

of course my well meaning parents told me that swallowing chewing gum would make it stick to the insides of my tummy and i wouldn't poo properly. so i stuck it behind my ear one day for later (saw it on tv)- my best friends mum ended up chopping out a HUGE chunk of my 'crowning glory' and we all had to keep it from mum cos i wasn't supposed to chew gum. i think i cried

donttrustanyoneover30

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

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~

I believed chewing gum was made out of the eyes of deer.

Greg

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