I used to believe that pencil lead was still made out of lead. In the sixth grade I was walking to the pencil sharpener and a friend was walking back from it, swinging her arm, and accidentally stabbed me in the finger with her pencil. The lead broke off in there, and I was SURE for a few weeks that I was going to die of lead poisoning. And instead of just going to the teacher, the school nurse, or my mom, I kept it to myself! (By the way, that little piece of graphite is still in my finger--24 years later!)
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I used to believe that Prince was the lead singer of Queen— Garrett
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.