I was told a bee couldn't sting you if you held your breath. After being stung three times I figured out that it wasn't true.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)
- I used to think that bees and wasps only stung people on the ears.Anon