My mom told me that if I swallowed my chewing gum, I'd have gum trees growing out of my ears. I kept sticking my fingers in my ears, hoping to feel the branches emerging.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.— Liz Smith
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- I used to believe that wind was created by the trees, that it came out of the ends of their branches. — STeve
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward