We spent many summers in Japan when I was little. At the time my aunt's toilet was not modern. It was a separate room with a toilet and a hole that dropped about 10 feet down. There was someone who cleaned it out every week or so. She was called "the honeybucket lady" Needless to say I was terrified that I would fall into the hole, if not for being so small then from passing out from the smell. But I was really nervous that I would accidently pee or poo on the honeybucket lady (as though she would be standing in there!) I always checked first.

Liz

I used to believe, like many others, that I had to get far away from the toilet before it finished flushing. Our bathroom was very small but the sink was seperated from the toilet by a short partician. I would flush, pull my pants up then run out of the bathroom as fast as I could. I would sit outside the bathroom until the toilet finished making noises then return to wash my hands. I have no idea why I did this.

theoddone

When I was little I used to think that there was a ghost-like monster in the toilet and he come up and kill you unless you peed or pooed on it.

Random Writer

I was scared to flush the toilet. I imagined (for some odd reason) that at the end of the pipe was The Incredible Hulk and he would be forced to eat my waste. I knew this would enraged him and that any day he was going to bust through the toilet and get me... it was just a matter of time. So I would flush and then run as fast as I could to an area of the house where the were family members between the toilet and me. I figured he would only kill the person he thought did it and therefore the closest person to the toilet and not me. I guess it was a matter of survival.

Amanda

When i was younger, i don't know how old, i went to a christmas party at my aunt's house. She had a boyfriend, who had a son, about the same age as my cousin, who was that aunt's daughter. They told me that every time someone would flush the toilet, a hand would come out of the toilet and try to pull you in. That night, i went to the bathroom and the worst thing that could have happened, happened. I flushed and tried to run out of the bathroom as fast as i could, so that the hand wouldn't get me, but to my horror, i got locked into the bathroom! I hit and kicked the door till my aunt's boyfriend finally freed me, i was crying and totally freaked.

young and stupid

When I was 4 or 5, I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet while sitting on the potty, that I would be flushed down with it. I used to have my sister hold on to my hands while I went to the bathroom. I was small for my age and my tushy barely covered the seat. Thank goodness my tushy got bigger.

kate

I used to think that plumbers were men who had to live inside the toilet and sweep all of the...wastes...out. I was always afraid one of them would accidentially climb out of the toilet while I was using it. To top it all off, my dad had a friend who was a plumber and I always asked him what it was like inside the toilet. He probably thought I was insane. Which I was. But I'm fine now.

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I used to hate flushing the loo and i have no idea why. I would do my stuff then i would unlock the door, open it, wash my hands, flush the loo then run as fast and as far away as i can. It wasnt just my flushing i was scared of. I was scared of anyone else flushing it. When ever i heard it being flush i would go turn into a physco child and run like mad.
Thankfully i can now flush the loo and not run away like a maniac although i do still do it sometimes at public loos.

K

When I was about 7 years old I loved the T.V show " Sailor Moon " I dont know the idea cam to me but I was Afraid that the bad people from the show , particularily the scary witch with flaming red hair , lived in my toilet , I thought that after standing up from the toilet i had only untill the toilet stopped flushing to wash and dry my hands , AND run from the bathroom screaming or else she would rise up from the toilet and grab me so she could pull me back in and make me become her slave !!!

Alanna

I used to believe that if i sat on the toilet for too long, this witch that lived in the drain would come up and scratch me on the bum

erin

When my sister was 3 I told her that whenever she flushed the toilet, the sound that it made was from a giant water monster that would suck everything down the bowl, and if she was too close it would suck her down too.

The revenge for this of course was that for the next 8 years she didn't flush the toilet. She's now 16 and still needs to open the door run to the tank press the button and sprint out of the room.

magiczoe

When I was younger I used to think that when I flushed my fish down the toilet it would come back and haunt me when i'm going to the bathroom.

Mick

When I was younger, I never flushed the toilet while sitting down. Because I thought that I'd be pulled into it. The "automatic" flushers really scared me! I had to keep my hand over the sensor while I stood, then I let them flush after.

Anon

When I was about 6 ot 7 I used to think that there was a snake behind the toilet and I would always do my business with my legs up...

Britt

I used to beleive their was a hideous man in the toilet, and every time i Flushed I ran to the first big person till the noise stopped. I also had a Rain man.

Lucy

I remember once when someone flushed the toilet and it overflowed. From then on, I had a fear of flushing toilets, so everyone would yell at me for not flushing the toilet and would make fun of me when I told them why. I flush the toilet now, but whenever someone forgets to, everyone blames me.....

Vanessa

When I was little my older brother believed an evil hand lived in the wall behind the toilet. He was convinced that when he was by himself and had to sit on the tolet seat that a tile on the wall would open like a door and the hand would come out and grab his privates. So whenever he had to do #2 he would take my brother and I with him and make us sit in the dark laundry hamper with all the stinky, dirty clothes. As long as he had someone with him the hand would never come out.

Lisa Shattenkirk

I was always afraid of toilets, like every other kid was. I thought that the louder the flush, the more likely I'd get sucked down into the toilet. Automatic toilets are the worst. I'd take some paper and cover the sensor with my hand so it'd think I was still there when I got up. Airplane toilets were soooo loud and had that horrible flushing that I'd cover my ears every time.

Odd thing is, no one really instilled that fear into me. I'm sixteen and I still covered my ears three days ago when I had to use the toilet in the airplane. I absolutely refuse to go to the bathroom if the toilets are automatic. And if there's a bar next to me for the handicapped people, i grab onto it with one hand so tight that my hand turns white.

Danielle

When I was younger I used to believe that there was a vampire living in my stool and when I was sitting on it, I always had to hurry up, because it wanted to bite my butt. But the vampire wasn't alone - he had a servant, you know, an Igor-kinda of guy with hump and really nasty face, like one of those monsters that serve all the Draculas in animated films. He was really dumb and he always made his master mad, because he sad something stupid. The vampire always got busy with smacking him in the head, and I had time to escape. It was really funny to lisen to theit little confersations, like a comedy ^^. I guess I own Igor a big time - thanks to him I still have a butt!

Maja ^_^

When i was little my mom would always tell me not ot flush the toilet when someone was in the shower, so i was afraid to flush the toilet because i thought that somewhere, someone was takin a shower. luckily for me (and the rest of the world) i got over my fear before i actually had left crap in the toilet.

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