I had this bad habit of swallowing my chewing gum and my dad used to tell me that if I keep doing it, a balloon would pop out when I farted.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum, when you farted, you would blow a bubble out your butt.— Bubble Butt
- That only men farted. I literally started sobbing the first time I realized I farted.Anon
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth