My mother would get us to spit out our gum before we went to bed at night by telling us if we insisted on chewing our gum in bed, it would turn into skeleton bones in our sleep! We all believed this and promptly spit it out!
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!— tony
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy