When I was little, I somehow got it in my head that if you used the bathroom during a thunderstorm, you would be electrocuted by the lightning. I guess that was because my mom always told me not to go near water when there was lightning because I'd get electrocuted, and there was water in the toilet.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.— Lou
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania