I always picked me nose when I was younger (and still do)
My dad and mum used to tell me if I kept picking my nose I would burrow a hole to my brain and it would all come out my nostrils.
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you picked
your nose your brain would cave in...— mr bogtrotter - when i was little my mum used to tell me if i picked my nose too much my brain would fall out!!! think it did— Maz
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- My brother used to tell me if I picked my nose I would become more stupid because bogey were brain cellsAnon
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon