I used to believe that if you swallowed a watermelon seed and drank water, a watermelon would grow in your belly.

Shaun

My dad used to warn me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, a tree would sprout out the top of my head!

Samantha from California

One time while grocery shopping with my mom and my sister, my mom lost her keys down a grate. Not only did my older sister convince me that we would now have to live in the grocery store, but she also managed to convince me that if we ate watermelon from the store and accidentally swallow a seed, a watermelon would grow in our stomachs and kill us. Still to this day, I refuse to eat a seeded watermelon, and I won't even eat the thin white seeds either.

Natalie

When I was little, me and two boys always ate watermelons. I ignored everyone that said that the seeds would grow in my stomach if I swallowed the seeds. I swallowed the seeds and when I went home that night, i felt something somewhat hard up my nose. I pulled it out and found that it was a watermelon seed. I ran crying to my mom until she finally convinced me that the seeds had not already started to grow in my nose...

NEVER~EAT~WATERMELONS

I believed that if you ate a watermelon seed, that a watermelon would grow in your stomach

nic

I used to believe that if you ate the little seeds on pizza that pizza would grow out of your ears

chana

i used to believe that if I accidentally swallowed watermelon or any other type of seeds that they would begin growing in my stomach.

Bryan

When I was about five years old, I accidentally swallowed a watermellon seed and my step-father told me that it would grow in my belly. I started crying hysterically because I thought I was going to get fat and blow up.

chickpilot

I used to believe, thanks to my older sister Lorraine, that if we swallowed watermelon seeds, we would grow one in our bellies!!

Debra Steckler

My grandmother told me when I was about 7 or 8 that if you swallowed the watermelon seeds and you drank too much water the seeds would grow and you'd get this enormous belly. I believed her! She convinced me by showing me all the beer bellys at the lake where we water-skied. There were plenty of them and I thought for the longest time it was because they swallowed the watermelon seeds. Pitiful! ha ha ha

Allyson

I used to believe that if you ate tomatoes, the pips would stick in your appendix and then you would get appendicitis and have to have an operation.

flanderella

when i was 5 yrs old i accidentlly ate a water-melon seed. i was scared, i asked my mom what would happen if i ate a water-melon seed(i didn't tell her that i did ate it).my mom told me that the seed would be planted in my stomach and a water-melon tree would start growing and it will give fruits which would hang out from my ears,nose,mouth and my belly button and soon i would turn into a tree.i started panicking and i tried to vomit so that the seed comes out but it did not. then later the whole day i tried to avoid drinking water cause if water falls on the seed it would grow faster. and i ate a lot of food so that the seed would fall under the food and don't grow.then for sometime i checked my mouth to see if any plant was coming through there...i actually kept on believing it till i was 11 yrs old...

lamia

Okay, alot of kids believed the whole "swallowing watermelon seeds will cause a watermelon tree to grow inside you" thing, but I took this a little farther. When I first heard of this, I hadn't quite figured out what death was, and I had this idea of time being infinite. My reasoning went like this: Suppose that there is a "last day." But then what about the next day? There is no last day! So even if the chances of me swallowing watermelon seeds today are very small, what about tomorrow? Or the day after that? Or the day after that? I thought it was inevitable that eventually, I would swallow watermelon seeds, and I definitely would have a watermelon tree growing inside me at some point or another, and this idea scared me, alot! As you can see, I was thinking way too much!

Evilrabbit

When i was little i was often told that if i swallowed a seed(of an orange, watermelon, grape) it would start to grow in my stomach until leaves and branches grew out of my ears, nose and mouth... i was so scared when i would accidentally swallow a seed!

G

when i was little my brother fed me dirt found in the buttons on the seats of my old car, then one day i was eating watermelon and swallowed a seed by accident. i started screaming for my mom to take me to the hospitl because i thought it was going to grow into a watermelon n my belly

melissa

When I was 5 or 6, my Grandpa used to tell me that if I ate the seeds of watermelons that I would grow watermelons out of my ears. Of course, that just made me eat more of the seeds until I realized that I just wasn't going to grow any no matter how many seeds I ate.

Jeff

Most people are farmilar with the belief that if they swallowed a watermelon seed, a watermelon would grow in their stomach. I took it a step further when I was little, thinking *whatever* I ate would grow inside of me. Apples made apple trees, lettuce made "lettuce trees" - the best argument was steak would make a cow.

Moose

When I was little my brother would tell me that if I ate a watermelon seed a watermelon tree would grow in my stomach and I would die. One day my sister was eating a piece of watermelon and I flipped out and started crying.

Abbi Smigle