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

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

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

A A RENN

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

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

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 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

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 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

I use to believe that I would get sucked down the drain with the bath water if I stayed in the tub after the plug was pulled. I loved taking baths but my parents didn't have any trouble getting me out of the tub, they said they could pull the plug and I would materialize standing on the floor next to them. I was eleven years old before I stayed in the tub until the water had all drained out to prove to myself that I would not go down the drain.

My dad liked to mangle children's poems when giving us baths. One night he was bathing me and he started in, 'the king was in the counting house, fixing up the car, the queen was at the golf course shooting over par, the maid was in the bath tub trying to wash her toes, she accidently pulled the plug...' and I shrieked out, 'AND DOWN THE DRAIN SHE GOES!'

Jennifer Avenell

I was around five when I decided to weigh myself on my mom's scale. Before I did so, I closly examined the numbers on it. Seeing that the highest the numbers went was 250 I assumed that that was how much my house weighed(it was the biggest thing I knew of at the time)and asked my mom if that was true. She was applying makeup and obviously wasn't paying attention when she replied, "Yes".
By the time I was 10, I had thought it over and it made no sense. I mean, my house was two stories high and it had all of this heavy furniture in it. Finally, I decided to ask my mom for the truth and she denyed that she had ever said it. Lol. She still won't answer.

Roxy

i used to believe that if someone take his bath with a hair shampoo, their body will become hairy.

roslin

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

Jami

I used to think that there was a dragon that lived under the bathtub and when you drained the water, he swallowed it!

No way!

When I was young, I heard a lot of talk about nuclear war. Something put the idea in my head that if I was in the bathtub I would be safe.

One Halloween when I was about 2 or 3 some guy decided to let off firecrackers in the field across the street. I imediately dove in the bathtub. This came in handy about a year later when our neighbour got into a shoot out with the police. (Yes, it was a bad part of town). We moved shortly after that. When we got to the new house, I was sure to pick out the room directly across from the bathroom.

Strixy