I was told by a schoolfellow once that if you scratched yourself one hundred times in the same place, you would have a permanent scar. I considered trying it--but at the time, "one hundred" seemed like such a high number that I didn't believe I could keep it up that long. (Probably I was just too chicken, though.)
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I used to think that being drunk was permanent— Boyd
- i used to believe that if u got permanent marker on yourself it would stay there for ever and ever— abi
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon