My mother took me to see the 3D Jaws movie when I was 2 (?) and I refused to keep my glasses on. She, apparently ready for anything, took a rubber band, a small pair of scissors and a mini stapler out of her purse. She cut off the arms to my 3D glasses and snipped the rubber band in two. Then she stapled the new 'arms' onto the frames of the glasses and sat me down again.
For the longest time, even though we had a septic tank then, I was convinced Jaws lived in the drain of our tub and was waiting to spring out and get me everytime I let the water out. For a long while I got my mom to pull the plug after I was safely down the hall (my logic dictated Jaws only wanted me, not anyone else). She finally got fed up with this arrangement and started making me pull it myself. I would stand there, huddled in a towel and sob, begging her not to make me do this horrible thing. I would literally stand as far away from the tub as I could get, facing the open door and FLY out of the bathroom, all the while pulling the chain attached to the plug and usually screaming my head off.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were blind and could only see when they had their glasses on. Anon
- Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses...
well I was only young at the time!— ..maz.. - A friend believed that they used a tame shark during the filming of "Jaws".— Wendy
- I used to think that Stevie Wonder was Ray Charles son. Must have been the glasses....— beatrix
- I used to believe that if you were blind you could wear glasses and you'd be able to see again— Jane
- I used to believe that people who wear glasses did had a second brain!— Onessa