When I was real little, I had a habit of chewing on wooden pencils. All my pencils had teeth marks all along the barrels. My teacher, whom I loved and trusted, told me that if I didn't stop, trees would grow in my stomach and the doctor would have to do surgery. I quit chewing pencils--I really believed what she told me!!
A childhood belief about teachers
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward