In elementary school, we all used to believe that there was a nerve between your eyebrows that, if pushed with your thumb, would prevent you from smelling someone's fart. This was called "corking it".
A childhood belief about farting
others believed things like this
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- In old west lore, Billy the Kid was called 'buck toothed'. I thought this was because he sucked his thumb. — Monty
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- When I was in elementary school, I believed my heart moved across my chest throughout the day.— Allison