When I was a child, I used to think that water than came out of the bathroom sink was very bad and undrinkable, because the same plumbing came to the toilet. And maybe it was like drinking out of the toilet. Only drinkable water came out of the kitchen sink.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- One day when I was 6 I learned that the toilet was NOT a water cooler. :/— J.C.
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- If i was drinking out of the toilet, i could have been killed!— Slinx
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon