When I was young and I was having a bath, my Dad would tell me to shut the door so a draft didn't come in, but because of his accent I thought he said a giraffe. I was always waiting for a giraffe to come in the bathroom.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- I used to think that if you take the plug out of the bath it will suck you into the bath— awesome kid
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that a "No Loitering" sign was "No Littering", inexplicably spelled with a Brooklyn accent.— erin
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!