biting my nails

When I was little, my Mothjer told me that if I chewed my nails, they would grow and grow in my stomach. You'd think this would have put me off, but I have never had unbitten nails - and I'm now 41!!

Fi Fowkes

When I was little my Mom used to read the Enquirer and she told me that she read that a little boy died from eating his nails and when they did the autopsy, they found his stomach full of undigested nail fragments!

Tyler

i used to belive that if you bite your nails,they would start growing and by the time they tuned into a finger,they would turn into bad fingers that would pick other people's noses.

BlazingEmerald10

If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.

Miss Laura

When I was 7 or 8 I had a terrible habit of biting my nails. One day my aunt said "If you keep biting your nails, the nail will get stuck in your stomach and you will have to have surgery right away before you die." I stopped.

Angela

I can't remember who it was, but when I was young, a family member told me that if I kept biting my nails I would eventually get appendicitis. It didn't stop me. I finally did stop about 5 years ago, but i wasn't because I lived in fear of a raputured appendix.

amanda

When I was about 5 - 10 ,I had a really bad habit of biting my nails.(fingers and toes)My mom told me that I could get worms in my stomach from the dirt underneath and I believed her.I am still not sure if it is true..but my daughter does the same thing,but the story did not work on her for she is still eating her nails.

Jennifer Jordan Houston,Tx

My dad told me that if I kept biting my nails that I would get frog fingers.

I think he just meant that they would *look* like frog fingers, all knobby and wide. He's right, but I've seen worse than what I ended up with.

atleastididntjumpoffbuildings

My older sister taught me that if I swallowed gum and chewed my fingernails, the bits of fingernails would get embeded in the gum. the gumnail ball would travel about inside my body and slice up my heart and other vital organs.

Did it anyway!

My mom used to tell me that if I bit my nails, I would later look like the Venus of Millo. I went on biting them...
But then, I had to find a job.

Emma

When I was a small child I used to believe that by chewing my fingernails off,that I would one day have no arms at all. My mother had everything to do with that.

Lisa Spaulding ,US FORCES CIVILIAN ,GERMANY

My Granny used to tell my sister that if she bit her fingernails and swallowed them that they would somehow get around her heart and give her a heart attack. My sister stopped biting her nails after that!

Dana

I was told by a friend at school, and believed completely until I was almost an adult, that if your nail broke (or you bit it) down to the pink then it wouldn't grow back. This was because only the white bit grew, the pink was always the same size. It didn't stop me biting my nails but I did it VERY carefully!

shelley

My parents said "stop chewing your nails or when you stop when you're older, you'll get ingrown nails." I thought that meant that when the nails got long enough, they would turn around and start growing back towards my fingertips and eventually go into the skin, so I was scared to stop. To this day, I chew my nails.

Tania

my mom used to tell me that i shouldn't bite my fingernails because there were worms under them. i'd always thought she meant that the worms would stick out from under my fingernails and squirm around. i found out years later that kids can indeed get li'l tapeworms from ingesting the dirt under the fingernails. yum!

mike g