What's A Belly Button For?

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What's A Belly Button For?

By: funbies

When I was a little kid and would ask my dad what the belly

button was for, he would explain, "That's where the

doctor blew you up when you were born!" Then he would

demonstrate by blowing a long hiss of air into his fist, the

freehand measuring away the growing size of me as this

imaginary balloon infant. Then to finish the demonstration he

would pretend to tie an intricate knot. "And then he would

tie the very important knot and would tuck it right here

inside you." And with this he would poke me in my own real

belly button. "And that's how you got your belly

button."

Of course I'd be giggling. And on occasion he would

add, "So never play with your belly button or else it will

come undone and all the air will come out of you." He'd

poke out his tongue and make a big wet raspberry sound and

pick me up and surf me around the room. "And then you'll

fly all crazy around the room like a popped balloon and land

somewhere over here on the bed, all flat and deflated" --

eventually throwing me on the bed as I laughed my head off.

He also would insist that the purpose of lips was to keep

one's mouth from fraying. But that is another story.

Fun story about where belly buttons come from.