Whenever I was in a public restroom, I'd always pull up my pants BEFORE flushing, because I had this freakish fear that when I flushed, the toilet could decide to blow up, and I didn't want people to see my dead body lying around with my pants still down.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- when i was abotu 5 or 6 i thought that if i were to pull hard enough on my pants, i would float away— Aaron
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- I used to believe that if you didn't close the toilet lid after flushing, you would get sucked down into it.— Maya
- i thought that when you wet yourself and pooped your pants you would dieAnon
- I used to believe that if you weed your pants, an alarm would go off and everyone would know you did it.— Mr Ice Creamie
- in the song with the lyrics "take your passion" my sister used to always think it was "take your pants off"— Steped