When I was small I hated being left alone, and when it was just my dad and I in the house, I would sit outside the (louvred) bathroom door while he was on the toilet, and he would gripe, "would you go away and let me poop in peace!" and so for years I thought the bathroom was called "peace". :-)
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I thought if I left the door open too long, a dog would come from the cupboard in the washroom and eat me
Anon - I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon