biting my nails

It's strange how you can justify your bad habits...I always believed biting my nails was the reason I'd never had a filling or tooth out at the dentists...something daft about fortifying my enamel with calcium...and that I should keep eating my nails for nutritional value...

Anon

When I was little, my Mom told me that if I kept biting my nails I would grow hands in my stomach. One day I asked her if that was the reason grandpa's stomach was so big.

Silly Nilly

When I was 5 years old, my aunt told me if I didn't stop biting my nails, I'd get worms. The only kind of worms I knew of were earth worms. Terrified I would have a bunch earth worms growing in my stomache, I never bit my nails again.

Khristina

I've always bitten my nails. When I was a little kid, however, I also swallowed the pieces of fingernail that I bit off. My grandfather told me that if I did that, a fingernail would start growing inside of me! So I soon stopped swallowing the nail pieces and instead started using the trash can.

Dave

I used to believe that I would get worms if I bit my fingernails.

Leslie

My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.

LindaAG

when i was little, my dad wouuld always push the cuticles on my fingers back. it was very painful considering that i was only three. he used to tell my that if i didn't stop biting my nails and didn't push my cuticles back, my hands would turn into pig feet.

loli

My uncle told me that if I didn't stop biting my nails that I would end up looking like the armless statue, "Venus de Milo".

Diane

once, when I was little, my grandmother told me that if I bit my nails, the nail would grow into a hand and come out of my eye.

Anon

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

i used to think that if you bit your fingernails, and chewed them it would form a bone in your stomache, and eventually your dog is gonna want to eat that bone!

the man who sat on elvis's knee

Thanks to my father, I believed that there was a limited supply of fingernail. Once that was gnawed off, my nail would no longer grow back. This by far worked way better than the hot sauce and and the bitter polish to get me to stop biting my nails.

J

I've had the habit of biting my nails since I was little, and one day, my friend's mom told me that if I kept biting them, a huge claw would grow out of my stomach. Surprisingly, that didn't stop me.

Molly

i used to bite my nails and when i was littler my mom did everything thing imaginable to make me stop(hoy sauce,tape,gloves ect.) but nothing worked! Then my dad told me that if i dont stop i will have to have surgery and get a big scare down my belly button that would be there forever! Then he would say see i used to bite my nails and look what happened to me, then he would lift up his shirt and show me this huge scar under his belly button! i stopped very shortly after! i later learned that that scar was actually from a car accident

katey!

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

My mom used to tell me that the dirt under my nails contained worm eggs. If I bit my nails i would get worms in my stomach!

Heather

I used to have a really bad habit of chewing my nails. My mom said that whenever you chewed them (and swallowed/ chewed them) it was cutting up your insides and eventually you'd die. To this day, I never chew my nails!

Eden

I used to believe that when you bit your fingernails a hand would grow in your stomach. And that when you ate the seed of a fruit that fruit would grow in your stomach. Needless to say, I didn't eat much fruit OR bite my fingernails!

Anon

my parents told me that when i bite my nails, it would cause an incurable disease that would never go away. the symptoms would be vomiting and diarreah (at the same time!), poor eyesight, loss of memory, and sterility. i stopped.

Shorty

when I was little, my dad told me that if I continued to bite my nails, they would have to remove one of my organs because it would have a ton of little nail bits embedded in it. Scared me, but didn't stop me..

jasonchic