When I was young and impressionable, I asked my dad what that loud rumbling noise was when you took out the bath plug to drain the water. He told me that it was the bath monster growling cos he didn't like getting wet. He said that if I didn't get out of the bathroom as quick as I could, the bath monster would come out of the plughole and eat me. For years I was absolutely terrified of the bath monster and up until the age of about 13 whenever I had a bath I used to remove the plug and immediately race out of the bathroom fearing for my life.
You know, I don't think parents fully understand what effect their lies have on small children...
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you take the plug out of the bath it will suck you into the bath— awesome kid
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- I used to believe that a monster would crawl out of the bath tub and eat me— Alex
- when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night — James Cameron
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy