My great aunt was born with a leg deformity and had to have her foot amputated as a child. When I was about 4 years old, we were all at a big family cookout and everyone was swimming in my aunt's pool. I had no idea that she didn't have a foot and wore a fake one. As I was about to get into the pool, I saw her in the water at the edge of the pool...and I saw no foot! Which made me think that something happened to it in the water (like it got eaten ) and I FREEEEAKED out and started screaming and crying. She had to come over and explain everything to me, because I wouldn't get in the pool!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- my aunt told us there was a special chemical in the pool that would turn red if we peed in it.Anon
- I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.— Mimi
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese