When my best friend and I were 10 or 11 years old we decided to test the gum swallowing theory. I chewed and swallowed a whole pack of grape gum and marked it on the calender to see if it would come out in seven years. We also planned an elaborate funeral if I died instead. Two days later at her grandmothers house, I pooped out a turd with wads of purple gum stuck to it putting to rest the seven years theory. We were also relieved that I didn't die.
How did we celebrate? MORE GUM!
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- 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 believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- I used to think the olden days came once every couple of yearsAnon
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon