When I was a kid, I asked my mom what happened to the chewing gum that I spit out in the grass. She told me that the birds ate it. So, I went on for years imagining the birds chewing gum and blowing bubbles.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that, if you swallowed your chewing gum, you'd fart bubbles...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- 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 was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.— Missa
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon