i never liked to stay in the bath long, because when my fingers started going wrinkly i thought i was slowly turning into a mermaid.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - Whenever my fingers wrinkled from staying in the pool too long, I thought I was aging faster.— The Mortal Elf
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy