My friends sister told us that junkies put thier needles into toilet paper in public loos to give people aids. I would always try to wait and went home with rather dirty knickers on more than one occasion, and continued to believe it until a rather embarrassingly late age!
A childhood belief about drugs

others believed things like this
- my mum told me that the 'public' park was closing so she could go home— xx-lotty-pop-xx
- 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 thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- The phrase 'Recycled toilet paper' always worried me.Anon