When I first started learning about colonial times, and how the women dressed what with corsets garters and those humungous hoopskirts, I always wondered how on earth they went to the bathroom. As a little girl I wore dresses a lot, and it was always a hassle to go to the bathroom wearing one. It must have been super hard to do it when your dress stood out three feet on each side. I finally decided that colonial women learned how to hold all of their excrements all day, and at night when they took of all their clothes they would finally get to go to the bathroom.

I was a stupid kid.

Anon

When I was younger, I had a bedwetting problem and my mother used to put one of those puddle-pads on my bed at night. I grew out of this by the time I was about six, and once when I was probably around eight or nine I was at my grandparents' house. My grandma was putting what looked like a puddle-pad on my bed, and, infuriated that she would assume I would wet the bed, I cried out:
"Hey! I don't need those any more, what are you doing?!"

She couldn't stop laughing and finally explained that it was just a cotton pad to make the mattress more comfortable.

Doh!

I believed that people need never go hungry because if you ate poo it would go through your system and turn back into food. Makes perfect sense.

Kate

I used to beliieve that urine was stored in the scrotum. I guess I didn't consider where girls held theirs.

Andy

When I was learning how to use the toilet (ie: potty training), I firmly believed that if I was alone while I did a "number 2", the resulting loaf would jump back up and bite my ass.

Tornado

when i was a little kid my sister told me that whenever i poopied that grimace the purple guy from mcdonald's would come out of my butt so i held it in all the time and was scared.

Jenna

I used to think that you coundnt pee and poo at the same time so I would allways go seperatly!!!

Bob

i used to beleive that if i fell asleep on the toilet id turn into a poo

keith

Up until I was approximately 7 or 8 years old, I believed that each family had its own way of going to the bathroom, and our family's way was to pull your pants down. I had only been in the company of my own family and cousins in the bathroom, and it wasn't until a scouting expedition, when I was with other girls in the bathroom, that I discovered that everybody pulls their pants down to go to the bathroom.

Susan

when I was little and missed the toilet when peeing, my parents would say "there's a leak in the pee pipe". I imagined a little water works in my body and sometimes the pee pipe would break and I would spray everywhere.

M.M.

I used to believe that pee pee was liquidised green pees that you eat.

BoBo

When I was five I was to busy playing in the Wisconsin snow to come in the house and remove my snow suit to use the bathroom. Having two older brothers I knew they could pee standing up. I learned the cold way that girls can't pee like the boys

still freezing

I used to believe that there was no point in having a drink of water and then going to the bathroom. I thought you would pee out what you had just taken in.

RM

Up until 1st grade, I used to think that when you pooped a baby would come out, and so I would look into the toilet and apologize to the baby and coo over it that it had to die so soon.

Brook

When i was little i used to think that when people went to the bathroom to use the toilet, they got butt-naked because they were always still getting dressed when they came out...fixing a shirt etc. So I would do the same and my mommy always knew when i had been to the bathroom because all my clothes would be in back to front and my shoes on the wrong feet.

omlaule

When I was little I thought that pee was yellow because people drank lemonaid, and boo was brown because people ate chocolate. Whenever I hadn't had chocolate or lemonaid for a while, I figured I ate and drank enough earlier in life to last me for a while.

Kat