When I was small my Uncle told me that if I prodded too hard at my belly button I would explode. from then on I was very careful when cleaning it and would cringe at the thought of anyone touching it. Imagine my horror over forty years later when I had key-hole surgery to remove my gall bladder when they removed the three dressings - the third one was over my belly button and yes, they had gone in that way! Fortunately I hadn't exploded on the operating table!
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- 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 was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann
- I was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- i was told that if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon
- My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"Anon