Up until I was around 12 I was scared to swim in public pools, because they had designs on the bottom, which I always thought to myself was either a giant squid or a human eating vacuum.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- I used to believe that "car pools" were cars with pools in them, like in the rock videos.— Smart Cookie
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily