I use to belive as a child that the water that went into the drains got cleaned up and put back into the water suply of the house with the exption of tolet water witch is why you only went to the bathroom in the tolet because you did not want to drink pee.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- My mum used to tell me that you couldn't drink water out of the tap from the bathroom as it was poisonous.Anon
- I thought tonic water was toxic water and wondered why would anyone drink it if it is toxic?— Dr.Badguy
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N