At dinner time my brother and I would put our chewing gum on a "gumparker". I wonder how long I actually chewed the same piece of gum. It also makes me wonder what other words (still in my daily vocabulary) were invented by my parents and are indecipherable to other people.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I used to hear "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of Meat with you"
Makes a nice light snack I spose.— Linda - When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- I used to believe that until gravity was invented, people used to just float around!— Meg
- i used to think before clocks were invented, there was no such thing as time— nathan t