When I was little, my father told me that our bones are replaced every seven years (meaning that old bone is broken down and new bone grows, all the time). I took it literally and spent two years very worried that on my seventh birthday I would have to go see the doctor and get my bones replaced.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- I Believed that somthing took the bread from the toaster and replaced it with toast.— Shukun
- I thought the guy who got shot at the beginning of Gunsmoke was replaced every week by a live guy.— Monica
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy