My dad LIVED in white tee shirts around the house and was always picking lint out of his navel. He told my sisters and I that he grew cotton in his belly button. We could never figure out why WE couldn't grow it too.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- I used to believe that belly button lint came from the *inside*. Why else would it always be the same color?Anon
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James - You couldn't have your belly button covered for too long or it would be harder for you to breathe.— Jess
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie