chewing gum

When I was a kid, I swallowed a gum ball, and my mom told me not to worry because it would come out in my poop. For days I checked my poop, expecting it to come out whole, and worrying that it was still inside when it didn't.

Anon

my older sister told me that if you accidentally swallowed chewing gum it wandered around inside you and could get tangled all round your ribs and suffocate you. I still don't chew gum!

Lorna

I used to believe that chewing gum was made from horses' hooves and if you swallowed it, it would wind around your heart. My mothr told me this

Bill Lear, age 85

When i was wee my brother told me if i swallowed chuggy, when i went to the toilet i would blow a big bubble out of my bum float out over the neighbourhood and all my fiends would laugh - believe i did not laugh!!! Bearing in mind that my brother also made drink his urine mixed with "no more tears" shampoo, i sometimes wonder what he is doing today!!

Di

I used to belive if ya chewed on your gum to long, your teeth would fall out! And...oh damn I forgot somthin else.....oh yeah, I also thought bubble gum was made out of rubber bands...I always thought I was putting gum in ma hair....:)

***money***

I thought that if you fell asleep with gum in your mouth you would die so you had to stick it to your head board or whatever for the next day. And if you did that it would taste even better too.

Sara

THAT CHEWING GUM STICKS TO YOUR GUTS
I GOT BEAT UP AFTER TELLING SOME1 THIS WHEN I WAS 7

JOE SCHMO

i used to think if you swallowed bubble gum it would take 5 years to digest and it would get burnt by the acid in your body.

josh

I used to believe that if you swallowed gum it would stick to your heart, and this huge pile of gum would eventually just stay there.
And I also used to believe that if i swallowed gum, someone told me it wouldn't dissolve in my stomach for 7 yers.

deborah

I was scared to death about swallowing my chewing gum since I thought it would turn into a seed in my stomach and eventually a huge tree would grow out my mouth and I wouldn't be able to close my mouth.

Anon

i didn't taste gum till i was 7 and my brother till he was 10 (we're 3 yrs apart). so when my dad brought us some gum after work one day, my brother and i were AMAZED. "what is this new type of candy??" "it's amazing" .we would stick it on walls and on doors.
AMAZING

Maria

I used to chew gum when i was sleeping,and it was still inside my mouth.
My mum said that if i swallowed the gum ,it would stick to my stomach and I would have a stomachache.

Chrono

My sister always pronounced - and spelled - chewing gum that way: jewing gum. She obviously thought it was a Jewish invention. Well, maybe it is???

Marion Schimmelpfennig

My mom made me believe that when u swallowed ur chewing gum, it would get all sticky, and stick in your intestines

Ben

I believed for the longest time, that if you swallowed chewing gum it would stick to your insides.

laf

I used to believe that if you swallowed chewing gum it would stay in your stomach for 7 years, because chewing gum is impossible to digest. I still don't know whether or not this is ture.

Anon

When I was very small, I remember sitting in my mom's lap in the car(it wasn't going) and she popped some gum in my mouth. Just as she said 'don't swallow that' I had. I thought it was normal food. She panicked and told me that it would stay in my stomach forever.

Then she gave me another piece, as long as I promised I would never swallow it.
Unfortunately I am allergic to gum now(aspartame) and can't have it...

Nitori

i was sitting in my P.E lesson and a girl started getting told off for chewing gum. immediately i realised that i was chewing gum too, and as i didnt want to get told off, i decided to swallow my gum. my friend then turned to me and said: "dont swallow your chewing gum, it will rap around your heart." to this day, whenever i think about that i laugh.

han:span

I was told that if you swallowed a piece of gum, it would stay in your stomach for 7 years.

katie

When I was a child, I used to chew a lot of gum. When my mother would
tell me to get rid of it, I would swallow it. That upset her very much so she
told me that if I kept swallowing my gum, it would all end up in my
appendix and it would eventually explode. (Which it did, but obviously not
from the gum - I think.)

Sally Mansis