body parts

I used to suck the ends of my hair until I was told that it would dissolve like candy. I believed this until I heard myself telling my young neice the same thing, and realised it was rubbish.

I used to believe that I could pull my ears off. So every night before going to bed, I would tug relentlesly at my ears! Why I wanted them to come off I don't know!

My parernts told all us kids that the belly button was a keyhole and if we found the right key and turned it, our bums would drop off. For years we all tried every different key we came across with no success. Now my own children are searching for that elusive key!

My mother also told me that while you were waiting to find the right key, you could use your belly button to hold salt or tomato sauce to dip your fries into.

When I was about 5 my older sister told me that if a white person and a black person had babies they would be piebald (like my pet mice). My brother's best friend had parents of different colours and I spent a lot of time trying to see under his clothes where the patches of other colours must have been!

My mom has always painted her nails the exact same color red. When I was a kid, I thought they just grew out that way on ladies, and I always wondered what color mine would be.

I have brown hair and brown eyes and when i was small i thought people with blonde hair had blonde eyes and people with ginger hair had ginger eyes.
It kind of makes sense !

When ever I use to cry ( for no reason) my mother told me I would run out of tears and wont be able to cry anymore so I always tried to cry without using to much of my "tear supply"

i used to believe that my stomach was a huge theme park and therefore everything should be eaten in order to get into that theme park! i never put any food in the bin, and if i did i muttered some funny made up language which was the directions of how to get from the bin into my theme park stomach!!!! :)

I use to believe that if I pulled the hair out where my cowlick was that it would grow back straight. I tried for a whole year till Mom asked why my banes were so short.

My brother and I used to sit around pulling on our front teeth trying to get them to come out like Grandpa and Grandma's. When we'd get frustrated we'd go and ask them for another lesson and they'd show us how easy it was. We kept trying but never could get the hang of it.

I used to believe that if I stuck my finger in my belly button - I wouldn't be able to taste my food. So everytime I was forced to eat gross food my finger would end up in my belly button. Sometimes I still do it without thinking.

I used to believe that getting grey hair was the warning that the lifetime's supply of hair in your head was running out. (A bit like a roll of tape in a cash register turns a different colour to let you know it's nearly all gone).

I used to believe…

That if we poked out our tongue, someone would grab the tongue and stretch it right out (in our minds about a meter) then let it go and it would go 'PING' through the back of the head.

I have an odd little cartilage bump (about 3 mm) under the skin on top my ear. When I was 4-5 years old and my mother had explained to me that babies come from eggs, I thought this was the egg that my baby would hatch from when it was ready! I had several of my little friends convinced too.

Well, this isn't mine, but I had both of my daughters convinced that I could "take" their belly buttons and give them back. The older one was 4 or 5 when she finally figured out that I was fooling.

When I was six I used to suck on the ends of my hair. My mum hated this habit and she told me that she knew a girl who used to suck on the ends of her hair and in the end she got a big ball of hair in her stomach and had to have an operation to get it out. Ever since then I tried my hardest not to do it anymore so that I wouldn't have to have that same operation.

I always beleived that your tummybutton held your bum on. My dad told me if you undid the knot your bum would fall of. Sure stopped me from playing with my tummybutton but put me into a panic if I saw other kids playing with theirs.