Where did you hide the bubblegum you weren't supposed to have...

My friend's son used to remove his nappy and push it to the back of the gap beside the washing machine. It was a while before the smell lead them to the hiding place!

Shysal - !!

Used to swallow it till my nan told me it stick all my innards together and block up my bum....and if I ate pips from the apple a tree would grow inside me,apparently I used to spend half my time with my hand down the back of my knickers seeing wether my bum had either closed up or have tree roots sticking out of it

And you'd get a proper telling-off for that, nellie!!
I used to stick my chewing gum under the desk at school until my skirt stuck to it. I told the teacher that the person who sat at the desk before me must have done it (I LIED!), and she was horrified, saying, "What a disgusting person"! I had to go through the rest of the term with a black sticky mark on the front of my skirt, as my mother couldn't afford to buy me a new one. Serves me right for lying!

When we were in Devon in the week, there was a slightly unnerving notice on the door of the garden centre cafe. "Would customers please not leave chewing gum on the undersides of tables. Please use a napkin to dispose of it in the proper manner".

Don't get that kind of thing in Berkshire!

I used to be terrified of accidentally swallowing mine for the same reason nellie.

Did they know you where going that day jing and put the notice for you

OMG!!!!

I hadn't thought of that!

Im with j04 and nellie, didn't dare swallow my chewing gum also, but I was told the chewing gum would wrap around my lungs, and mum wondered why I didn't sleep at night, the worry of it all when you are 6 !!!!!

Money was tight as a child so sweets were rare ...and gum never!! Told it was a 'filthy' habit ...interesting how times change!

Absolutely hate the 'recent phenomina' (sp?) of white spots on the pavement One of Singapore's laws that I like

I recently bought an old oak bookcase from a junk shop. Later, when I was cleaning it up I found a piece of chewing gum stuck on the underside of one of the shelves.

I used to put mine on my iron bedframe overnight as a child.

That sounds like a cue for a song.....!

I was like jacey strictly verboten!

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'Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
If your mother says don't do it, do you swallow it in spite?
So it's sticking to your tonsils and you're heaving left and right...
Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?'

....warble, warble, warble

Quite, green!

jacey and jeni forbidden in our house too. " Only common children chew gum. My first taste was as a teenager. " I was offered some gum when I was at work at 17 and forgot that I had metal braces on all my teeth, I think it took a couple of days to pick the resultant mess from the wires

My mother forbade it as well. That's why we had to hide it inside the walls. Actually, I never liked it much (taste wore off too fast), but one had to be defiant a few times

Same here, Bags - didn't see what all the fuss was about when I eventually got to try some...

I wasn't allowed chewing gum and when I did try it, I didn't like it. I've never tried bubble gum and don't propose doing so at my time of life. I can't bear the way people (eg Alec Ferguson) look so vapid as their jaws keep churning ceaselessly. When I decided to stop smoking last year, there was absolutely no way I was going to turn to chewing gum for oral gratification [sic] – whether nicotine gum or just mint. [yuk emoticon]

Confession time. I was never allowed chewing gum or bubble gum, so I used to peel it off the pavement and chew it. The thought of it now makes me feel sick!

I am lost for words Nummberplease

Sorry for the extra m there.

numberplease ...the thought of you doing it is making me feel sick

I was wondering how many of you posh girls would say you weren't allowed chewing gum

petallus ...as I've already said ...we didn't have the money for sweets ...how does that make me 'posh'?