I used to love watching National Geographic documentaries when I was little. And my dad couldn't swim. So one day, he made me watch Jaws, explaining that it was a documentary of what happens when humans get into deep water, being of course, the shark's environment.
I quickly became very wary and hesitant to swim in the sea... but then I discovered swimming pools. His solution was to tell me that all the pools in the world were interconnected by underground channels that lead out to sea, and Jaws could find me in any pool any where at any time if it wanted to.
Since then I don't swim alone in pool or sea, and I am paranoid about shark feeding times and anything that may attract a shark to me. But i still love to swim.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- 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
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- A friend believed that they used a tame shark during the filming of "Jaws".— Wendy
- When i was younger,I used to believe i could see a shark in a pool .Anon
- I used to believe that the B-52's song "Love Shack" was actually "Love Shark!"— Natalie