My father would always tell my little brother and me when we were younger that if we swallowed our gum, we'd get stuck to the toilet seat forever. We'd laugh it off but we both admit to being extra careful in the bathroom afterwards. Not anymore, of course.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to think that boy's lifted the toilet seat to pee because their asses were too big.— sydo
- When I was a child I used to belive that my father had forever been a 40 years old man.— Nicola
- I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.— silly