When I was younger, I used to think that by swimming in a public pool I would get pregnent. I knew that people peed in public pools and that if the pee went around, or, on my "girly part" I would get pregnant. Weiird...
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the pools was a swimming competition.— Matt
- i used to believe that public houses were just houses were the public could go and liveAnon
- my Dad told me ice rinks were defrosted every evening and turned into swimming pools— neil
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I always though as a kid that "To Let" signs were public conveniences with an I missing. Really.— Col
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon