My mother always use to tell me and my brother when we were kids, "Don't do anything bad, or i'll get the screw driver. You know what happens after that? I'm going to unscrew your belly button and your butt will fall off." So I tried my best to be a good girl (never was of course) and so did my brother. To her knowledge, her theory worked, until my brother got into trouble and she said that line. He gave her a look and said, "Not-uh! 'cuz I tried that and it didn't work!"
A childhood belief about belly buttons
you weren't the only one
97 of you believed this
- I used to believe that if someone unscrewed my belly button, my butt would fall off— David
- i was told that if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon
- My Dad told me that if the knot in your belly button came undone that your bum would fall off! — Sue, Staffordshire, England
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- That if you fiddled with your bellybutton it would unscrew your bum and it would fall off— Sundaeg1rl
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy