# Do you remember the kid you swapped chewed gum with? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432 "2012-03-01T08:40:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/1 "2012-03-01T08:40:09Z")
What do you remember about him/her? Or that time in your life? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/2 "2012-03-01T08:57:31Z")
Thankfully, I’ve never done that. Ewwww. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/3 "2012-03-01T09:35:47Z")
What? ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/4 "2012-03-01T10:16:01Z")
_Shrug_. It’s not that gross, no more so than kissing, and I assume most people have done that. I don’t remember actually ever having done it myself, though. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/5 "2012-03-01T11:04:45Z")
Never did it as a kid, and was mildly grossed-out when a boyfriend took my gum from me. Too close to mama bird regurgitation for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a4c791/32.png) [@Ibanez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibanez)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/6 "2012-03-01T12:40:07Z")
Never did that, I remember the first person I swapped spit with though. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/7 "2012-03-01T15:52:52Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > _Shrug_. It’s not that gross,… Yes. Yes it is. That is disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/8 "2012-03-01T15:55:34Z")
I remember doing it with a friend, but can’t remember who. Or why! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/9 "2012-03-01T16:23:21Z")
I don’t think I’ve ever tried ABC Gum. ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/10 "2012-03-01T16:27:03Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > _Shrug_. It’s not that gross, no more so than kissing, and I assume most people have done that. I don’t remember actually ever having done it myself, though. I’d say it closer to drinking a cup full of someone else’s spit as it is to kissing them. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/11 "2012-03-01T17:01:13Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > I’d say it closer to drinking a cup full of someone else’s spit as it is to kissing them. Or sucking on their toothbrush. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/12 "2012-03-01T17:07:13Z")
I used to do it with my boyfriends and gum but never anyone when I was a ‘kid.’ Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/13 "2012-03-01T17:09:58Z")
As a kid I would have found it _totally_ disgusting. I was a lot more scrupulous then than I am now about germs. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/14 "2012-03-01T18:29:49Z")
Never did it. I would have thought ikk then, and still think ikk now. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/15 "2012-03-01T19:09:43Z")
Yeah, it was a cute girl I liked in the 10th grade. She got pregnant a little while after that. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/16 "2012-03-01T19:21:31Z")
Somebody asked me in 3rd grade if I wanted some gum. I said “sure” and when I held out my hand they put their chewed gum in it. I promptly stuck it in their hair and told them they weren’t my friend anymore. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/17 "2012-03-01T19:27:57Z")
I, too, have never done that as a kid. Gross. But I have done so with a high school girlfriend who was chewing gum at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/18 "2012-03-02T07:19:45Z")
> [@Bootis](#): > > I’d say it closer to drinking a cup full of someone else’s spit as it is to kissing them. I’d say if you think that, then you’re doing one or the other, or possibly both, wrong. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/19 "2012-03-02T22:50:22Z")
> [@Lucretia](#): > > _Shrug_. It’s not that gross, no more so than kissing, Sure it’s more gross. Just like how swapping spit during kissing is less gross than having someone spit directly into your mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432/20 "2012-03-02T23:52:48Z")
I don’t remember doing that with gum, but I did it with um…mushrooms. It wasn’t until I tried them a second time that I realized the awful taste was the mushrooms, not the guy’s spit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-the-kid-you-swapped-chewed-gum-with/614432.md?page=2)