My mother would used Sani'FLush granules which fizzed a lot to clean the toilet bowl - to keep us from using the toilet til it was clean she told me that if you sat down on the potty and granules were in it, if you urinated it would burn your bottom! Kept me from interfering....
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.— Sev
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- I used to believe that toilet seats were for kids only and that adults sat directly on the bowl. — Evan Klyne
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly