WHEN I WAS IN PRE-SCHOOL I WOULD START CRYING WHEN I SWALLOWED A SEED, CUZ I THOUGHT A PLANT WOULD START GROWING IN MY STOMACH, AND WHEN THE SPRPOUT GOT TO MY MOUTH IT WOULD BE SO BIG I'D NOT BE ABLE TO CLOSE MY MOUTH.
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.— Annette
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- i used to believe (when i was little) i could make the wind stop and start by saying, "stop" and "start"— Ali