When we were young we lived near the airport in the landing path for the planes. My granfather told us not to look up with our mouth open because someone might flush the toilet and it would get in our mouth.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the "shark mouth" nose art painted on military planes was to scare enemy pilots away.Anon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- I used to believe that if you told a lie, Dragonflies will come and sew your mouth shut. For real.— Casey