When I was about 5 and started chewing gum, and sometime I accidentally swallowed it, I used to believe there were 2 rods inside my stomach to wind up the swallowed gum: one for the pink gum and another for the white gum (there wasn't all sorts of gum colours back them. The gum would be rolled up around the rods as cord. It's terribly stupid, I know. I was 5, see.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back— cope
- When i was a kid i believed that you died if you swallowed chewing gum.— Jonathan
- I used to belive that, if you swallowed your chewing gum, you'd fart bubbles...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA