My grandfather once told me that you could not pee and poop at the same time, and if you did, you would explode. So for the next 10 years I never let any poop out while I was peeing. Until one day i figured what the heck, and did both at once. It emptied me out in half the time. I was so happy :)
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- I used to believe that if you had a pee AND a poop at exactly the same time, then you would die— ange
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- when i was about 5 my sister told me that kiwis were elephant poop— kelli putnam
- Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.— The Mailman