picking my nose

Many of us kids were told, when we were small, that we each had a snail living deep up our noses, and if we stuck our fingers far enough up there, we'd find out how the nose-snails were different from the regular dirt-snails: They had teeth, and would bite the tips of our fingers off.

Kate

I used to believe that if I picked my nose, it would stretch and become big enough to serve as a tunnel for a train! Although this was scary, it just got more tempting to pick my nose.

Glazed donut

I used to believe that if you picked your nose long enough you would touch your brain. That is what stopped me from picking my nose.

Nose-Picker

When I was little, my Dad would tell me that if you pick your nose and then eat your boogers, then the boogers turn into worms in your stomach.

al

I used to believe that whenever i picked my nose, i was picking out part of my brain..my brother convinced me i was right..that's what got me to stop when i was a kid...
haha..now i see how bizzarre i am..

Aly

i used to believe that mucous running out of my nose was actually soy sauce and i used to just keep on licking it and licking it because hey... i like soy sauce

Ba D.

When i was about 3 or 4 i believed there were monsters in my nose, and if i picked my nose, they would eat my finger.

~unknown~

I used to believe that if I ate my boogers a booger tree would grow out of my head!

Kimmy G

I got told if you picked your nose your eyes would pop out.

Anon

My dad used to tell me that if i picked my nose, it would fall off

Anon

i used to belive u had to pick ur nose or u couldent breath .. so one day i was doing it on the bus i was about 6 or 7 and my best friend told the bus driver that i wiped it on the seat so he turned the intercom on and said Gabby stop picking your nose!

Gabrielle Kaczkurkin

i used to think that if you picked a big bogger, your brain would come out on the other side.

zj

My uncle lost the ends of one of his fingers to diabete's but when I was little I didn't know that.. One day he caught me picking my nose and told me that one of these days the nose-worm was going to come out and eat the end of my finger just like it did to his! I was terrified to pick my nose after that, and I was also terrified of worms.. Go figure!

Neleh

when i was little i used to think there was a worm way up your nose and if you picked your nose too far up it would bite your finger off

kyle money

I asked my mother if picking my nose would make me sick. She replied, "Yes." Thinking I would be able to stay home from school, I picked my nose frequently.

lil dopey

When I used to suck in my boogers through my nose my baby-sitter said that I was eating my boogers whenever I did that. She said that if I keep doing that a booger tree is going to grow inside of me and I would have boogers coming out of my ears and mouth and nose and stuff. I got scared, but it didn't stop me from swallowing my boogers.

Analiz

My dad lost the top half of his index finger about a year before I was born, and when I was little he told me that he had come loose and fallen off because he picked his nose too much. Then he would grab my finger and twist it and tell me mine was coming loose.
He still tells my little cousins that...

Anon