As a kid I read the line "won't stick to most dental work" on the side of chewing gum packages. I thought dentists must use special paper in their offices that wouldn't allow gum to stick to it.
A childhood belief about reading

others believed things like this
- I was always told that if you swollowed chewing gum your Bum would stick together.— Missa
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon
- My Mum told me that if you swallowed chewing gum, your bones would stick together inside you.— Pauliboy
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela
- My friend used to think hit me with your rythm stick was hit me with your fiddle stick!! lolAnon