When I was younger my parents, my grandmother, and my teachers told me that if you swallowed your gum, it would stay there forever unless you had the doctor take it out.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- if i rolles my eyes, it would stay like that foreverAnon
- I used to believe that bodies that were embalmed would stay preserved forever.— Leelee
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- I used to believe that grown-ups were born "grown up" and that I would stay a little kid forever.— Still A Kid
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon