I used to believe up until very recently that after boys and men urinated they dabbed the end with toilet paper to dry it off. My boyfriend told me with much mirth, when I was about 23, that they only shook it.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm
- The phrase 'Recycled toilet paper' always worried me.Anon
- I used to think that women urinated out of their buttholesAnon
- I used to think Elvis' "I'm All Shook Up" was "A Mushy Cup". How sad of me to confuse the lyrics of a king...— Sad, Sad, Girl