My mum told me that when you pick your nose your nostrils will enlarge and look "unsightly and un-ladylike". I must have been about four back then. Now I'm closeto thirty, with a university degree in medical sciences, and I am still a little suspicious of people with big nostrils (including my husband)!
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- When i was a kid, i used to think that my dads moustache grew out of his nostrils — l.j.
- I used to gag when I ate english muffins because the holes in the bread looked like nostrils.Anon
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- my mom told not to pick my nose because if i fell i would poke my brain.— brent
- One day i told my mom that i wouldnt pick my nose until the boogers made it look like i was a walrus— Lotta Thang
- my grandpa told me if you pick your nose too far then a snail will bite your finger off haAnon