When I was about 3 years old, I asked my sister, who is 5 years older than me, "Why are there lines on your belly button?" She told me that they were there because she could "grow" candy out of it. That night before we went to bed, she showed me her belly button and sure enough, there were pieces of candy in there. I think she finally had to tell me she was lying when she ran out of candy!
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy