I used to have very bad lips, like very dry. My mum once said that if I licked them it would make them more dry, which I thought was stupid because obviously if you lick them it makes them more wet at the time. I didn't realise she was talking about the long term affects.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a cow-lick meant that a cow had licked you when you were a baby.— Lindsay
- I believed if I let my dog lick my face and didn't wipe off the slobber, that I would turn into a dog myself.— robyn
- When I was little I believed that when I put lipstick on my lips, the lips grew.— Alba Águila Castelló
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- When i was 5, i thought that you could lick your elbow....Anon
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J