biting my nails

I used to chew my fingernails until my older sister told me that I was eating my own bones, and I believed her.

Anon

I used to have a really bad habit of chewing my nails. My mom said that whenever you chewed them (and swallowed/ chewed them) it was cutting up your insides and eventually you'd die. To this day, I never chew my nails!

Eden

My preschool teacher told me that if you bit your nails and ate them(which at that time i think we all did) that you would get a big hole in your stomach.

Anon

My mom used to tell me that the dirt under my nails contained worm eggs. If I bit my nails i would get worms in my stomach!

Heather

When I was five, my twin brother Zack told me that if I ate my own toenails, a foot would grow in my stomach and yet... I still doubt him...

Cody Martin (Boston- Tipton Hotel)

when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomach

Anon

My mom used to tell me that if you bit your fingernails and ate it that you would get worms inside. It didn't stop me from biting my nails though.

wormy

my dad told me if i kept biteing my nails they will build up in my stomach, it diddnt help, i just stoped swllowing them. i have a weird thing, my nails have to be the same length every day, negative side is, they are too short to cut with a cutter, my teeth do the job well.

sam

when me and my sister were young, my mom painted our nails red and told us if we kept on biting our nails we would eat the nailpolish and die. my sisters nails are now really long and pretty, but i kept on biting mine and now they're still really messed up and short.

eylyana

i used to bite my nails down to the quick.. my mom told me that if i kept doing that i would get an infection and a lump would form under my arm and they'd have to cut my arm off..

kimber

My mom told me people who bit their nails became ugly. I thought my looks would change, that I would grow a hiddeus nose or something. I did not understand that she meant my hands would look ugly if i contined chewing my nails

Svante

someone once told me that if i kept biting my nails, they would stay in my somache and grow one big fingernail. sadly, that didn't help my habit

Big B

Me and my aunt were watching Cops and there was a man with his thumb in his belly button! He was born that way so the cops had to cuff him in the front. So my aunt told me that if i bit my nails my thumb would grow into my bellybutton. I beleived her.....

CD

When i was younger, i used to ALWAYS bite my nails! One time my mum said that people who bite their nails, aren't allowed chocolate, ever again! I
stopped biting my nails. When i found out it was
false, i started again! That'll teach my mum to mess
with me!

I'm not daft

I use to believe that if I kept biting my nails they would all fall out. my parents had a friend that somehow did not have any finger nails and they would show me his hands to put the scare in me and say he lost his nails because he wouldn't stop biting them. even though I believed them for some reason it didn't work all that good cause I still was biting them but maybe not as often.

Jane

when i was a little girl, in catholic school, the nuns would tell us that if you bite your nails they don't digest...when you die and they open you up, you'll have a belly full of finger nails. therefore, i never, ever bit my nails again!

kathy

i used to think that if you bit your fingernails, and chewed them it would form a bone in your stomache, and eventually your dog is gonna want to eat that bone!

the man who sat on elvis's knee

In order to stop me from biting my nails, my mother (and a couple friends of her) used to tell me that nails would accumulate in my body, one over the other, and they would eventually fuse and form a long blade which would then come out of my throat and wouldn't let me breathe anymore. I still bite my nails to this day :-)

Mnl G