My older brother told me that if I swallowed gum it would stay in my stomach for seven years. Everytime I swallowed a piece I would calculate how old I would be when the gum finally got digested. I did this for years. I finally clued in when I was about twenty.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi