My mom (in what I guess was an attempt to keep me from draining hot water) told me that sinks we not equipped enough to handle boiling hot water and that if i poured boiling hot water down the drain it would explode. TO THIS DAY i cannot pour hot water down the drain without first diluting it with cold water!
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- I used to believe that hot water was red and cold water was blue.Anon
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- I used to think that trolls lived in my shower drain and showered with my dirty water— Troll bather
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic