At school we all believed that if you swallowed chewing gum instead of spitting it out, every piece wedged in your lungs and eventually you could not breathe anymore. I never swallow gum, thirty years later!
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- When i was a kid i believed that you died if you swallowed chewing gum.— Jonathan
- Right when I started school, I believed that you could get kicked out of school for chewing gum. — Rheeb
- I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto
- My grandpa told me when I was little that if you swallow chewing gum your butt will be sticky— Lili