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I used to believe that if i was alone in a swimming pool a shark will apear and eat me
When I was little I thought that if you swam to long the water would suck up your youth and that was why your fingers got all wrinkly.
My dad once told me that water reservoirs were paddling pool in the sky , I used to shout out paddling pool when I saw one
manda
When I was 7 my older sister and all of the lifeguards at my neighborhood pool convinced me that there was a thing called a wetifyer. If you turned the wetifyer off then once you got out of the pool you would no longer be wet. I believed them until I finally became a lifeguard myself and asked my boss where the wetifyer was located...
Carly
When I was about 6 we use to go to Los Angeles in summer to vist my grand-parents.They had a swimming pool in the back garden.When I was swimming, I asked my brother why I couldn't swim in the deep end and he told me"Well our family is part mermaid and that I wasn't enough of a mermaid." so of course I asked what I needed to do to become a Mermaid and he said eat lots os carrots which I hated and still do.I started to cry and when my dad asked why "I just said Daddy I need carrots." I think he thought I was just a very heath concious child.
Sasha
When I was little i wouldnt swim in the deep end of a swimming pool because i thought there were lobsters in there and they would bite my feet.
I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.
Mimi
when my sister and i were young, we went to a pool that had white tiles on the bottom of the shallow end, with the occasional black tile. my sister believed these black tiles were bottomless abysses and refused to step on them for years, until one day she braved it and was completely shocked it was just another tile.
When I was younger I used to believe that sharks lived in any body of water (including swimming pools). So everytime I jumped off the edge or the diving board I would swim as fast as I can to get back out because I thought a shark would come out of the pool wall and eat me.
Laura B.
You know how some hotels are called "Hotel Name and Suites"? Well I always used to think suites was meant to be suit, as in bathing suit. I thought that all of those hotels had a pool, and they had extra bathing suits in case you forgot yours. I pictured this big room with men's, women's and children's suits, in every size. I thought that was a lot of work for a hotel to go through.
Laura
I used to think that there was a saltwater crocodile in my pool...i'd still go into it though...just not the deep end.
Steph
When I went swimming I used to believe that sharks lived behind the grills where the wave machine comes from!! I wouldn't even look underwater at them incase I saw a shark looking back at me. When the wave machine came on I thought the sharks were getting angry and I wouldn't go near the grills incase they ate me!
Jo
i have an inground pool. i used to believe that little people swan around on the bottom just waiting for me to jump in & pull me down to the bottom & drown me!!! i still have to double check the bottom b4 jumping in(:
I used to believe that skinny dipping means you have to be skinny to do this. I found out what it REALLY meant, D:
KELM
When I was about 7 or 8 I thought that when my parents told me not to get near our pool cover was not because I would drown with it pulling me down but rather there were sharks under there. So when it was back half way I would literally take goggles and try to see them on the other side of the pool but stay really close to the shallow end wall.
I used to belive that there were lobsters in the pool filter and people would take them and eat them, I dont know why i guess it looked like a lobster trap!
me
When I was about 4 or 5, my older cousin had told me that snakes come out of the pool filters. To this day I'm still kinda creeped out about that.
I used to be afraid to swim in the deep end of our pool if no one else was in the pool. For some reason, I believed piranhas would come out of the filter and eat me.
I used to believe, at night, sharks inhabited the dark recesses of the deep end of our pool. Even now, as an adult, I get a slight shiver across my skin as I swim to the deep end of the pool at night.
Diana
when i was really young(like 6 or 7), my grandparents had a swimming pool. my sister and i loved to swim in it, an my geandma or grandpa was alwys outside by the pool with us. anyway, i used to believe that when i went underwater, giant bees would come and attac the people that werent in the pool . i also believed that there were faries that followed me everywhere i went
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