My mother has an irrational hatred of bubblegum/chewing gum so I was brought up to believe that it was bad and the old story that if you swallow it, you'll basically die. So one day as I was taking my life in my hands, chewing some gum, it accidentally flew out of my mouth, rolled across the ground and was quickly eaten by a Jack Russell terrier, I panicked and ran off. For years I carried around the guilt of being a dog killer and I could never tell anyone because I was so ashamed. The thing is, I am still not 100% sure the dog did survive the incident, though I am pretty sure it would take more than that to kill a dog, wouldn’t it?
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto
- My grandpa told me when I was little that if you swallow chewing gum your butt will be sticky— Lili
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon
- When I was a kid My friend’s mom told me if I swallowed my bubblegum it would make me fart bubblegum bubblesAnon
- i used to think boogers were chewing gum. Gross, i know!— ediop