My uncle (who is bald on top) once told me--when I asked him why he was--that he had run holding a stick. I was skeptical, but thought he was possibly right, but there was no way I was giving up the imaginary midevel wars with my friends. Running while holding a stick figured prominently in these games.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela
- My friend used to think hit me with your rythm stick was hit me with your fiddle stick!! lolAnon
- I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.— Missa
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie