When I was little I used to have lots of nightmares about toilets overflowing + flooding the world. For some reason I believed this could actually happen, + I decided that the best way to avoid it was to befriend each toilet I used.
I would introduce myself to public toilets, + try to use the same one if I went there again so it wouldn't think I'd gone off with someone else, 'cos that would make it really, really angry. + you don't want to upset someone with the power to flood the world, do you?
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- I thought the "To Let" signs on buildings meant they were public toilets.— Scottish Laddie
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon
- I believed alligators lived in toilets, and one apparently got hold of my sister.Anon
- when i was little i told my brother that when it rained it was gods toilet overflowing— Lisa J
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- i used to believe that little people lived in the toilets. and that they could eat anything and everything. — bob the pinecreek