I was always told not to swallow toothpaste when brushing my teeth. Naturally I came to assume that the product was poisonous and I vowed never to touch the stuff again. I got over this fear a few years later but the damage to my dental record will never be undone...

Anon

When I was little, I asked my mom what the hole at the top of the bathroom sink was. (the overflow protection drain hole)
She told me that was for the water company to watch to make sure I wasn't using too much water. Sounded true to me at the time!

BJ

In the apartments where we lived when I was little the drain was kind of slow I guess and the bottom of the tub would fill up with a couple of inches of dirty soapy water. I would stand as far away from the deeper end of the tub as possible because I thought evil fairies riding fish would come up through the drain and bite me and poke me with little sticks and things.

no

I used to believe that the middle parts of jacuzzis were filled with whirring blades and that's why the water was so bubbly. Whenever I wanted to get from one side to the other, I would scoot around the edge. I was really worried for my dad that he would get his legs cut off as he always went across the middle.

Anon

At 3 or 4 years old, I believed that the walls of your house were hollow and served as massive water reservoirs. The taps literally opened a hole in the wall and let all the water just fall out. This strange belief system also held that if you forgot to turn the tap off, your house would flood, with the whole street following soon after, finally resulting in a Biblical Deluge which would basically destroy the world. A panicky "forgot which way to turn the tap off" incident, combined with a number of nightmares about small leaks in the walls of our home, saw me become the "Guardian of the Taps" at my kindergarten. When time came to wash up before our snack, I would man the sink and ensure the safety of our planet.

Antonius Maximus

Years ago, houses had only bath tubs installed. Our house, however, had a shower, but my family never used it, we all took baths.
One day my older sister told me that we didn't use the shower, because when you turned it on, fire came out instead of water.

BoB

there is a make of sinks called 'armitage shanks' i used to think it was 'automatic sharks' so was really scared to wash my hands.

Anon

i just remebered another bathroom belief i had, i didnt ever like to have bubble bath, because i believed there could be tiny shark eggs in the bottle and i would never know until it was too late, and the heat of my bath water would excelerate their growth rate and i still wouldnt know because i couldnt see into the water because of the bubbles. my grandma used to automatically use it, so i always made a hole in the bubbles just to keep an eye on the water, just incase.

nyssa

I believed you could dry your hands with hot water, until i got a chance to try it.

A A RENN

I used to think that whenever the toilet was flushed it was emptied into a closet in the basement (the pipes were in the wall behind the closet so it always sounded like the toilet flushed into the closet)

I was afraid to open the closet until I was 8 (although I always wondered how it was emptied)

TK

i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old

Jami

Like many young children, my (older) brother used to be afraid that he could be sucked down the drain of the bathtub. He once told me that to test his fear, he put me in the tub and drained it, to see if I would go down the drain. Apparently, I wasn't as important as he tub toys. Maybe that's why I never had a fear of the drain.

Allison

I used to believe that there were secret opposing societies who were always at "battle" with each other. The people were on either side, depending on which way they put their toilet paper on the roll. I was on the side of the toilet paper coming over, and was "against" the people who put their rolls coming from underneath.

Robyn

when I was 5 I use to think that if you leave the bathwater running to long that little fishes from the ocean would
swim out of the faucet.

Anon

I once saw a commercial or something that showed a kid who'd left the faucet running while he was brushing his teeth. the water came from a pond right outside his window, where there was a happy little fish swimming around, but the fish drowned because the kid had left the faucet running and sucked the pond dry. after i saw that i never used faucet water to brush my teeth, because i thought that it was pond water.

K

I used to think that if you left the taps on for too long the sea would run out.

fletch

when i was little, my dad used to wash my hair, and he used to joke about shampoo being "burning eye soap" and that it would melt down my eyeballs if it got in my eyes. to this day i refuse to let my dad come near me with any soap of any type.

smash

i used to believe our fan in the bathroom was a monster because it made so much noise ! so everytime i went to the toilet i would talk to the fan so it wouldnt hurt me!! lol i kept this habit until we moved out of the house we lived in and our new fan didn make noise like the old one!

susie

when i was little i used to that a singing monster was hiding in my shower so every time i went to the restroom i would sing to scare him away

issy

When my daughter was little, she used to think that the gurgling noise made by the bathwater going down the drain was the result of a very thirsty dragon that lived in the sewer.
Too cute!!

Jasonchic