chewing gum

When I was about 5 years old, my dad told me to be careful when chewing gum because if you swallowed it, it would get stuck to your stomack, and never come out. When I would accidently swallow my gum I would think to myself that I would have a belly full of gum by the time I was older.

BPF

my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy

ms pouty

When I was about 9 I was told that if you swallowed your gum then it would be in your digestive tract for 8 years. So I figured that with all the gum I must have swallowed already I'd have gum inside of me for the rest of my life. Thankfully I learned that gum is digested just like everything else. :) I still don't like swallowing my gum anymore though. 0_o

Bunny

My parents told me that having too much candy, or particularly gum, would rot my teeth. I thought that it would instantly turn my teeth into the yellow rotten things I saw on posters at the dentist's office.

I still don't chew gum.

Anon

I was told that if I swallowed gum that it took years and years to digest. And when it finally did I would be constapated for a long time because of it.

Angela Madeleine Helene Alexander Rector-Roy

when i was young i used to believe that chewing gum was made out of cows feet

Anon

my dad told me a long time ago that if i swallowed gum it would go into my lungs and keep me from breathing! of coarse i have no clue why he told me a story to make me not want to swallow gum but it sure worked for a couple of years. by the way if u push your nose while you swallow gum it helps you swallow =) thats a fact!

Zlata

When I was 8 years old I use to chew bubble gum and swallow it because I didn't know where it would go. Then my teacher took me that swallowing gum will stay in my stomach and know I 'm 9 years old and I'm spliting out my chew gum in the trash. And for my teacher thank God we have internet.

Kenney Watkins

on chewing gum,

I think it was a thing in our hometown because not only my brother and family, but all my friends parents said the same thing. It takes 7 years to digest gum. It just slows everything down in your system and you will become deathly ill. I think I actually believed this until I was graduated.

Dee

My mother would get us to spit out our gum before we went to bed at night by telling us if we insisted on chewing our gum in bed, it would turn into skeleton bones in our sleep! We all believed this and promptly spit it out!

Misty

i used to beleive that if you swalled gum it would give you chiken pox

nose picker

I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.

Anon

i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it

gammie

when i was little i used eat this gum with a zebra stripes on it and a zebra on the pack and one day i asked my older cousin why it had zebra stuff all over it and she said it was made from baby zebras...

hala

When I was really small, I had this little friend who thought that Starburst was gum. She'd put a piece in her mouth and chew it for a few seconds and then take it out and give it to her mom. I was only three, but I thought, "Gosh, this girl is dumb." She thought I was going to die from swallowing it.

friend of the stupid

When I was little, my sister used to tell me not to swallow my gum because it would make my guts stick together.

Rob

When I was a kid I had an obsession with chewing gum. My mother trying to get me to quit chewing gum told me that gum was made out of elephant Buggers, so I stoped chewing gum.... for years

elmo

i used to belive that if you swallowed bubble gum it would be stuck inside you forever. i always refused gum or spat it out quickly once i was done chewing it until i was 9.

steve

When I was little, i had the very bad habit of swallowing a lot of bubble gum. My mom used to tell me that one day I would get stuck to the toilet seat! I didn't care and still don't as I still swallow gum.

NANCY

When I was about 5 and started chewing gum, and sometime I accidentally swallowed it, I used to believe there were 2 rods inside my stomach to wind up the swallowed gum: one for the pink gum and another for the white gum (there wasn't all sorts of gum colours back them. The gum would be rolled up around the rods as cord. It's terribly stupid, I know. I was 5, see.

Nuri