When I was 3, my older brother told me that if I made a face then someone slapped me in the back I would be stuck with that face for the rest of my life. Of course, it didn't work if someone tripped you right after you were slapped in the back.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- I used to think that if a fly didn't bleed when it was swatted, it would come back to life.Anon
- I believed if I let my dog lick my face and didn't wipe off the slobber, that I would turn into a dog myself.— robyn