my bff when i was little told me that when you were going poo that if you sat on the toilet too long lobsters would come and and pinch your bum all through out my bringing up i would always be scared that i was sitting on the seat too long and kept checking eventually my sister told me the truth... what a pal eh?
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that there were lobsters in the toilet and if I didn't look they would come up and pinch me.— Traumatized
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- When he was a kid, my husband thought the hymn "bringing in the sheaves" was "bringing in the cheese."Anon
- I used to think that if you shone a flashlight beam onto a lightbulb long enough, it would eventually light.— Karen K