When I was very young, around 5 or 6 yrs. old, I remember my mother telling me that if you swallowed your chewing gum, it would stick to your appendix and you'd have to have surgery. I guess I stuck that in the back of my mind and never thought much about it until I was about 20, right after I'd gotten married. I accidentally swallowed my gum, while doing housework. All of a sudden I remembered what my mother had told me. I always trusted my mother. Go figure.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie
- 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 Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back— cope