I use to believe that hair wigs and press-on nails used to come from dead people. I would never wear any. Even up to today if i require long hair and fingernails I much prefer to grow my own.
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When I was 3, I got a lollipop stuck in my hair. I decided to fix the problem myself. So as I sat down to watch "Mr. Roger's" on TV, I began cutting the candy out. Half-an-hour later I realized I had completely cut all my blonde ringlets off on one side of my head. Scared, I quickly gathered all the hair off the floor and stuffed it under my bed. I was sure that if my mom didn't see the missing hair, she wouldn't notice.....
after she began screaming, I was shocked to find out that she did notice. apparantly the half-bald head gave it away....
Once my brother swalled one of his loose teeth eating a rice cake. My mom looked in his mouth and said that the new one was coming in. I thought I could see something white at the back of his mouth, and until I lost a tooth I thought that over the course of days, new teeth would fly up from your stomach and land in the empty tooth-space.
my sister was 3 yrs younger than me and beleived that there was a secret to stop your hair ever going white (our mum was completely gray at age 35). i pretended to read the whole dictionary and Pears cyclopaedia until i found it.
i said it was to have 6 eggs cracked on your head by a blood relative, (ie me, of course) and let them dribble down all over your face and hair and neck without cringing, crying or complaining.
i sat her in a chair with the towel over her shoulders like at the hairdresser, and got as far as 2 eggs until my mum walked in and went ballistic
She didnt even see the funny side
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I used to believe that if you drank coffee while you were pregnant you would have a black child and if you drank milk you would have a white child.
When I was little I used to believe that when you lost a tooth, if you didn't stick your tongue in the gap of where it was a gold tooth would grow in there. My Grandfather had told me that and no matter how hard I tried, I could never keep my tongue out of the gap. Needless to say I never grew in a gold tooth!!
When I was little, I used to believe that your hair was a huge wad inside your head, and that's how it kept growing. And that if you cut it too often you would run out of hair and become bald like your dad.
My sister use to tell me that I would not a get a brain until my next birthday. The next birthday came around and it then moved to the next birthday.
I used to believe there were two kinds of mustaches, the kind that grew on your upper lip and another kind that grew across the bridge of your nose right under your eyes and that was the kind suitable for curling and waxing. Hanna-Barbera gave me this impression.
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I seriously thought that if I stuck my head out the window while the car was in motion, my hair would grow. I gave this advice to many people.
when i was about 5 i allways chewed on my hair and my mum allways told me that if u chewed on ur hair it would tangle up all ur insides and eventullay you would expload ! LOL!
Eye brows were eye browns.
When I was about three, I used to believe that the round bone joint in my armpit was an almond under my skin. This belief came about after my sister "magically" pulled an almond from my armpit.
I used to believe even when I was in 8th grade{now I am in highschool} that as we grow, our heart,liver,intestines grow and one day I also asked my teacher that why ppl get the disorders like high blood pressure though there heart grows according to their body size? And at that time the whole class was laughing {except me} for 13 minutes and I am serious!
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When I was little I used to think I could avoid sunburns if I ran around in circles, cos then the sun couldn't catch me.
I used to believe that each strand of hair was connected to a "brain noodle". The prinicpal of my elementary school (Mr. Scott) was bald. I puzzled over this for awhile and finally went up to Mr. Scott and asked how he could be a principal if he didn't have a brain.
When I was a child, I used to believe that if I cut my nails at nighttime the mice could eat my nails and then change of mine. So I never cut my nails at nighttime.
When I was small and in the bath my mum used to clean out my belly button ' To get rid of the potato seeds'. I hoestly believed this (potato seeds in the BB) until halfway through A level biology.
As a child, on asking my dad why I could see his bald crown he replied that it was because he was "so tall that he was growing through his hair". I really believed that for a long time!
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My Dad told me that if the knot in your belly button came undone that your bum would fall off!