picking my nose

When I was younger my dad told me that if you picked your nose too much, that you would pull the lining from your brain! I believed that until I was 11 years old.

Julia

when i was young my grandmother told me i would get nosecancer through picking my nose. i believed this for many years.

sektorian

I used to believe that the nose was a mine where little miners dig something and when I picked my nose, I was giving them a hard day at work... So I didn't picked my nose... ever.

Kate

When I was little, my mom told me that there was a snail that lived in my nose, and if I picked my nose the snail would bite my finger off!

Lady J

When I was about 3 or 4 I was eating my boogers when my gramdma told me that boogers were actually dead bugs. Never did that again!!

What?!

When I was little I was told that if I kept picking my nose my nostrils would get stretched out and people would stare at me as an adult.

Anon

when i was about 6 my auntie told me that if you pick your nose a big tree would grow out of your bellybuton, this amused my brother and one day he thought that it would be a goood idea to super glue a flower in his belly button to try and scare me the best bit about it that he was lefft with a bit of the stem and supergglue in his belly button

beth

I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.

Jenny

When I was about 3 or 4, I was sitting in my mom's room picking my nose and eating my boogers. Well, my mom came up and said "Don't you know that if you pick your nose and eat your boogers, they collect in your stomach and sooner or later a big green worm will crawl out of your mouth?"
I still pick my nose (who doesn't) but that scared me into not eating them, that's for sure.

Anna

I was always tolded that there was a little man in your nose that would bite your finger off if you picked your nose. In kindergarten, all my little friends would pick their noses and I would freak out!!!!

boogie man lady

my brother used to believe that if he continued picking & eating his boogers.. they would go into his stomach and grow into worms.

Anon

My brother used to believe that dried out boogers were actually "paving" the inside of your nose.

sm

someone told me the expression "got any bats in the cave?" i really did think there were bats in my nose so i never picked my nose again.

patrick stone

My Uncle told me when I was little that there was a snail that lived in your nose and if you picked your boogers it would it bite them OFF!! I've used this one myself on all the little ones in our family that came after me!

Dawn

My sister always had one finger up her nose as a child. I told her that the 'bogies' were bits of dried brain she was picking out and if she didn't stop she would die. She believed me, but it didn't stop her nose picking habits.

Anon

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 I thought if I picked my nose I would poke my eye out.


Mary

Anon

My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.

The Mortal Elf

my mom has always told me that picking your nose makes big rings grow around your eyes and the only way to remove them is laser surgery. (which i believe is what happened to her!!) -& i've never picked boogers ever since.

rhinotillexomaniac

if you pick your nose your brains will fall out!

Anon