When I was about 8, my mom joked to me that if you swallowed chewing gum it'd gum up your guts.
I spent weeks terrified of swallowing chewing gum and that I'd die. One day I fell of my bike and swallowed some by accident. I ran back home, crying like crazy. My mom asked me what was wrong, and started laughing when I explained that it wasn't the fall, but the "chewing gum thing". They still rib me about that.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- When i was a kid i believed that you died if you swallowed chewing gum.— Jonathan
- I used to belive that, if you swallowed your chewing gum, you'd fart bubbles...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- 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 if I swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap around my heart and strangle me— "Tusitala"
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- My Uncle Billy used to tell us that if we swallowed chewing gum it would clog our bums up !
— Coolbuzz