I used to think that if I pulled the plug out of the bathtub while I was still in the tub I would be sucked down the drain with all the water. If either of my parents came into the bathroom and pulled the plug, I would jump out screaming.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

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
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night — James Cameron
- I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)— Mike