MY older brother once tormetd me by telling me tha if you stayed in the oilet whi was fshing you'd get sucke in ith the water and other stuff. From that day until a 16 or so had to flush the toilet and run out of the room.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly