I used to believe that if I used the bathroom in the middle of the night, the duration of the flush would be just enough time for the robbers to break into the house (without being heard over the sound of the flush) and get me. Petrified, I would flush and then run back to my room as fast as humanly possible, get under the covers barely peeking out, listening for the robbers. And out of breath from the sprint back to my room, I didn't breathe too loudly or else I might not hear the robbers coming to get me. Or I didn't flush.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I used to think that robbers had keys to every house and that's how they got in to take your stuff— Emma
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- the poopy man. he would pick your poop up when you flush— annie
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to believe that echos were actually the sound going completely around the world and coming back to you.— kyle