I believed that if you stayed in the bathtub while the water was draining down, you would get sucked down the drain.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- I used to think that trolls lived in my shower drain and showered with my dirty water— Troll bather
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb