watermelons

when i was a little girl i ask my sister why her tummy was so big and she told me that she ate a watermelon seed and a watermelon growth inside her them she had her baby and i put two and two together and that where i thougth baby came from

Anon

When I was younger I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds that I would get pregnant. So for the longest time I was afraid to eat watermelon. I owe this to my siblings. Now I know better.

Tiffany B.

When I was little my cousin was pregnant . I asked why she had such a big tummy. She told me that she swallowed a watermellon seed and it grew. From that point on I never ate watermellons

Ruth

I used to believe that if I ate too many watermelons I would turn into water...

Peter

When I was about 3 or 4, I believed that bugs came from watermelons. My mom had gotten a watermelon for the 4th of July. For over a week, I tried to get her to open it, and when she finally did, I ran across the room, started dancing around in fear, and started shouting, "BUUUUUUUGS!!!!!!!!!!!"

Kirk

I used to believe, that a watermelon seed could somehow get stuck in my ear and grow there and it could become so big that it will damage my head. I never eat watermelons.

M

I used to believe that you got pregnant by eating watermelon seeds! I thought that the watermelon seed would go into your belly and grow into a watermelon and then turn into a baby! I was scared to death to eat watermelon and I still to this day do no eat the seeds!!!!!!!!!

Heather

My mum told me that i should never eat watermelon seeds as they are poisonous. I still remove all the seeds now and get paranoid when my little boy eats any seeds i never removed!!!

Rags

MY MOTHER TOLD ME ONE TIME THAT I WAS GOING TO DIE BECAUSE I HAD EATEN SOME WATERMELON SEEDS. FUNNY AS IT WAS THEN I WAS TERRIFIED AND CAN REMEMBER CRYING AND TELLING HER PLEASE DON'T LET ME DIE.

CHRISTINA

My parents when grocery shopping late one night and bought a watermelon... by the time we got home it was my bedtime but I really wanted a piece of the melon... My dad, wanting me to go to bed, told me my mom had to cook it first... so when I got up in the morning I asked my mom "did you cook the watermelon yet????" My mom was very confused

Karen

When I was a child, my father told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed, I would be pregnant. Later that year, my aunt was pregnant and I told her she shouldn't have swallowed that seed. Everyone laughed, except me. I didn't see what was so funny.

Kristie

I was 7 and was staying with my aunt in the country. She grew some vegetables there - cucumbers, pea. Once my uncle brought a watermelon from the market and put it among the cucumbers in the garden. I woke up in the morning and was really surprised to discover that a watermelon had grown in our garden overnight. but lol, I used to believe that up to the age of 12 or so, until my mother put me straight.

Mary

In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants.

Caff

My cousins told me that if you eat the white part of the watermelon rind it will poison you... for years I left a respectful inch of the good stuff above the rind... though I was eventually disabused of the notion.

Vriesea

I used to believe that if you ate watermelon seeds, it would turn the inside of your stomache brown.

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe that the green outer rind of watermelons (and for a while, the white part too, lol), was poisonous.

Emily

My grandmother told me once that I couldn't eat watermelon when it was lightning because water "drew" lightning and it would strike me if I ate watermelon! I think this was just to deter me from eating at that particular time and she never told me any different. I believed this until I was a teenager! Be careful what you tell your kids!!!!!

'Lane