Growing up we had an inground pool in the back yard. It was wonderful during the hot missouri summers to just lay on a raft and float around for an hour or so. When I was young I was terrified of getting in the pool. I would float but I hated to get off the raft because I was scarred something would come up from the bottom of the pool(which is where a pipe sucked water and pumped it through to keep it circulating. It was terrifying. I would see dirt stirring around on the bottom and thought that something like a monster would form out of the dirt. It was really silly...but I still don't like to go in the deep end by myself-I'm 22. :-)
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.— Mimi
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I used to think that a carpool was one of those bug, long limosine's with a pool all the way in the back.— Annie