My father told me that if I ate rhubarb, I'd grow hair on my chest. I thought this would be interesting and was disappointed when it didn't happen (I'm a woman now, and am still waiting)
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- Eating potatoes with skins on puts hair on your chest— Muddinyori
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller