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[apocalypsos]

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

Somehow I got gum stuck to my boots, and when I crossed my ankles it got stuck to the back of my dress pants. So now I have gum on my favorite boots AND one of the few non-stained non-torn dress pants I own.

Am I the only person on the planet who always swallows their gum? And that old wives' tale about people not being able to digest gum is bullshit. If all of the gum I'd ever eaten was still in my stomach, my favorite hobbies would include rolling all the way to work like Violet Beauregarde and explaining to people that I'm not expecting sextuplets.

Again, ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

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Dear Monday ... yeah?! Well, fuck you, too. Sheesh.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

*raises hand* Hell, half the fun of gum is swallowing it when you're done. Ever devour an entire Hubba Bubba Tropical Bubble Jug at one sitting? Delish! :)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

You know what I can eat in two minutes flat? An entire pack of Grapermelon Juicy Fruit. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. :)

[phillyexpat.livejournal.com]

I think I've swallowed gum twice in my life-the first time was when my mother tried to teach me to blow a bubble (I've never learned to this day) and once when it was either swallow it or choke to death on it (that might have been a peanut, however).

I do, however, make a point of putting it in the garbage, since my feet are also a magnet for gum.

Gum

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I don't swallow, but I always trash. However, I also always seem to be able to find exactly where someone else has spit out there gum and step in it. Curses!

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Well.. it's probably true that you can't digest it much. Anybody who thinks that means it'll stay in your stomach forever hasn't really studied the digestive system, though. And/or has never swallowed a marble.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Rubbing alcohol applied with a cotton swab should get the gum off your clothes.

[gentleman-lech.livejournal.com]

I don't swallow gum, but I always make sure it finds its way into an appropriate trash receptacle, either one with a bag or wrapped up in something so it doesn't stick to the side or bottom. I hate it when I step in gum, so I'm very careful to make sure I'm never the cause of someone else having to deal with it.

[pastaqueen.livejournal.com]

My 7th grade English teacher believed that gum swallowing myth and would always try to scare us with it. I think he was just sick of all the gum-chewers in our class. Otherwise, he was a very nice man.

I read an article once that said anything that doesn't pass through your digestive tract within 2-3 days is going to start causing you serious pain. Don't know if it's true or not.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Certainly if it blocks your digestive tract. That's serious-scary-survival-percentage-surgery time. Not quite on the level of cancer removal, but it's very easy for any surgical intervention in the bowels (for obvious reasons) to become really badly infected and kill you. Before modern surgical techniques, any wound (bullet, sword, knife, pike, tree) in the abdomen had a near certainty of being a killing wound -- but it took you days or weeks to die, in agony.

[altiloquent.livejournal.com]

You don't digest it. You pass it whole.

:o)

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

In high school we were actually allowed to chew gum. Everyday when I came home from school my gum had no flavor left so for some reason I got in the habit of sticking it to the bark of the tree in the yard that I would walk past. After about two months of depositing my gum there, my mom commented to my dad about the strange fungus growing on the tree... At that point I had to 'fess up and the gum went in the garbage after that.

[irishblessing.livejournal.com]

I swallow, too.


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And, uh, never have your boyfriend walk pass when you type stuff like that *lol*