I used to be afraid of the drains in pools and bathtubs, because I thought they would suck me down them. Whenever I took baths, I'd stay as far away from the drain as possible. I just avoided swimming altogether. It got worse when my parents told me to "stay away from the deep end," because I looked down and saw that huge drain there! I thought people were crazy for swimming at all, and I always tried to keep my parents out of the pool.
Everyone just thought that I was afraid of drowning, they kept trying to teach me to swim. I was terrified! My parents finally found out and told me that it was impossible to fit down the drain, but I wasn't convinced and refused to go into the pool, or even walk near the deep-end for fear that I'd fall in and be sucked up.
To this day I am wary of drains, and I never have learned how to swim.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese
- I used to believe that if you farted while swimming in the pool, it could propel you foward really fast.— Rick