When emptying the bath, I had to be out of the bathroom before the whirlpool started making that slurping noise. I figured something would get me if I lingered, so I raced to dry myself and escape.
I could buy some time by splashing the water to break up the whirlpool temporarily.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - I used to beleive that when I took a bath w/ my brothers, that if they peed in the water I'd get pregnant.— SabB