When my brother was little my dad caught him picking his nose. Dad goes, don't do that, it's bad for you and you'll die. Brother takes his manky finger, licks it and says 'see. not dead!"
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- my brother (10) still believes that if you stick your finger to far up your nose you can touch your brainAnon
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- I used to think, that if you're picking in your nose too much, you push your eye out.— Joanna
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon
- My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose. — sm
- when i was small my brother always told me that if you picked your nose your head would cave in— Eric