before i started cleaning house, i never knew how the toilet got clean after each use (especially in public bathrooms where there was no mommy with a toilet brush). it seeped into my imagination somehow that there were short, green gremlins in blue overalls which would climb out of the back of the toilet and hold up wooden signs that said "BUSY - CLEANING," then start scrubbing exactly when i flushed it. this terrified me for years, until i got chore-lists and found out they were small CHILDREN that had to clean the thing. -- and i was one of them!
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.— Jeremy Clark
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo