My son came home from school and announced that I must go out and buy him some verrucas from the chemist in order for him to go swimming with the school. He insisted the whole class were getting them. I explained to him about the little plastic socks people sometimes needed to wear to the pool..............
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet— Shirley Reeves
- I used to think that if I was home sick that no one else could go to school either. (it was MY school)— kirk
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to think that when you went to junior school you had to wear a turban.— Ellie Stott
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick