Not long after my parents allowed me to see the movie Gremlins. (I begged for weeks, I was about six or seven...) I made up in my mind that when you flushed the toilet (these were the old style with like, what forty gallons of water in them) and were alone in the bathroom, that it set off an alarm. The evil Gremlins would come up through the toilet and get you. This being absurd because water was a problem for them in the movie. I cannot tell you how many un flushed toilets I left, or how many times I ran really fast from bathrooms!
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- 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 beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- 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 the toilet would suck me down if I flushed it.— :-)
- i use to believe that if i flushed the toilet when i was still on it would suck me down to who knows whereAnon