My cousin used to tell me not to swallow my gum cause i had a bone in the middle of my chest and the gum would pile on top of and if i kept swallowing it, it would eventually come out my mouth and i would have to have surgery to get it removed. How horrible hun?!
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda
- i used to believe that a sign in a cafe bone-fide meal meant meat with a bone in it— roy
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- When my cousin was younger his name was Alexander and he thought his middle name was "ander"Anon
- I used to believe that my leg has only one bone Anon
- i used to believe that the rag and bone man would come and take me away if i wasn't well behaved— ambrosez