biting my nails

My parents used to tell me that if I chewed my fingernails, little bugs would come crawling out from underneath them. What they didn't count on was that tomboys love bugs...

Lena

My mother told me that if I bit my nails
the pieces would make holes in my stomach. I would stop for a while but pretty soon I would run to my mother and say" Feel my stomach. Are there any holes?" and she would know I was biting again.

Garth

When I was 4 I was caught biting my nails. My babysitter told me that if I swallowed enough of my fingernails that they would turn in to little worms and that I would poop them out. she also added that if there was enough of them they would eat me from the inside out. I can remember always checking the toilet for worms. It stopped me from biting for a while, but soon after I realized as long as I didnt eat my nails I was safe. I still bite my nails to this day.

Bagel

When my mother was younger, she went to a hypnotist. While under hypnotism, she was told that biting your nails was basically a form of cannibalism. She hasn't biten her nails since.

Anon

I use to think the dirt under you nails was food. And the different smells from the crud was different and higher grade dirt food. I as live on a farm and my father watches cows and i thought he would milk bulls.

MATTY STUART

my great uncle had nubs on some of his fingers from a chopping block accident. whenever he saw me biting my fingernails he would tell me that his fingers were the way they were from biting his nails... it was a good try, but it didn't stop me.

Lynda

my grandmother used to tell me that biting my nails would cause whole hands to grow in my stomach. I guess they'd have to fight for room with the watermelons growing there from swallowing seeds and all the gum I swallowed!

Jennifer

I was told if I bit my nails, I would get worms.not just ordinary worms, but big buggers, like the ones found in the garden. Needless to say I stopped biting my nails, and grew them long, when I was in my early teens, it was then that my Father, said for God sake cut those nails, they are far too long, and look disgusting!!!!!!!!!! who wins????
Anne

Anne Kenyon

I used to believe that if you bit your fingernails and swallowed them, a hand would grow in your stomach.

michael

I used to believe that to get the right goodness for nails to be strong and healthy, was to eat the nails already there, the goodness could be used twice! calmed down now ont th' ol' nail biting

Mr J B

Mum used 2 tell me when I was younger that if I bit my fingernails a big plant would grow inside me!! I haven't eva bit my nails since!!

Michelle

I used to think that biting my nail helped my dental hygiene. After biting a long strip off my nail i wold use it to pick food out from between them...then along came dental floss!

Anon

I use to bite my nails untill one day my mom said that my nails were going to stop growing and one day I would not have anymore nails to bite.Of course I stop and to this day I dont bite my nails.

Jay

My daughter used to bite her fingernails. Nothing I did would make her stop. One day I found a picture of the Venus de Milo and told her that she'd end up like that if she kept biting her nails. Unfortunately, that didn't work for very long either.

Caroline

I was about seven when my great aunt told me that if I continued to bite my nails the pieces would form in a ball around my heart and kill me.

bridget mcalpine