When I was little, we would always get in a tube and bounce up and down in the pool to make a "wave pool." When we went to the beach, I thought there was a really really fat person in the middle of the ocean with a really big tube bouncing up and down to make waves!
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- if you eat toothpaste straight from the tube, you will get worms— wormelow
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin