when I was a small girl, I had the bad habit of picking my nose. I simply detested having bogeys in my nose, so I'd always pick them out. My mother, quite horrified at this once snapped at me: if you keep picking your nose, your nostrils will stretch and become huge. look what you have done to them already! I instantly stopped, terrified. I have big nostrils, was it my own fault?
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- I used to think, that if you're picking in your nose too much, you push your eye out.— Joanna
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon
- Picking your nose and eating it. Hey! Tastes like chicken and only half the calories— Henry the Seventh
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- that sneezes were caused by little pixies crawling up your nose and brushing past your nose hairs— Joanna