My mother has told me about a time when I was just starting to figure out that letters made words. She said that one time she saw me pointing to the word on the back of the toliet and I said, "E-L-G-E-R. Potty!" I thought Elger (the name of the toliet manufacturer, spelled potty.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I used to believe that if I spelled Norwegian words backwards, it would be English. I don't anymore...— Gudrun