Once, I believed that it took 7 years to digest a swallowed piece of gum. I have no idea where I got THAT from.
Hey, I rhymed. =)
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- i used to believe it took 7 years to digest gum— lorenn
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- I used to believe that, in a deep and profound kind of way, the words "door knob" rhymed with "said so". — Katie
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa