I think I was about five or six, but I developed this fascination with burping, sneezing, hiccupping, etc., and came up with the idea that if you did several such things at the same time, you would instantly die. I was sure that my dad knew the answer, but I couldn't just ask him straight out. I would say, "What would happen if you cough, sneeze, fart, burp, and hiccup at the same time?" I would be dissappointed when his answer didn't involve death. So I would re-phrase the question, (e.g. sneeze, hiccup, burp, cough, and fart), to try to ascertain the correct order. I was sure some combination would be lethal.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I was told in first grade that if you fart burp and sneeze at the same time you would blow up— bob doodle
- i thought that if you held in your fart you burp if you happen to hold both in you explode!— ahh!
- My brother once told me that if you burp and fart at the same time, you'd explode— Aubrey
- I used to believe that if you held a fart in long enough it would come out as a burp.— Chris
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- I used to believe that my grandpa had a special power that made him fart each time I pulled his finger. — confused