Up until the time I was about eight, every time I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night I waited as long as I possibly could before summoning up the courage. Why? I had this firmly held belief that when I went to the bathroom, behind the shower curtian (always closed at night for some reason) there lived a horrible skeleton monstor that would eat me if I flushed the toilet too loudly. So I never flushed the toiled at night (and always blamed my sister the next morning when my mom asked who did it)
Also, there was a family of gnomes that would eat my toes if I didn't have them on the side of the tub while going to the bathroom. I still keep my feet up when I'm in that bathroom.....
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- The song 'there's a bad moon out to night.' i thought they were saying 'there's a bathroom on the right.'— kim in alabama
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- When I was little, I believed that if I didn't go to the bathroom quick enough, I would actually explode.— Coco S.
- 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 think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J