At 3 or 4 years old, I believed that the walls of your house were hollow and served as massive water reservoirs. The taps literally opened a hole in the wall and let all the water just fall out. This strange belief system also held that if you forgot to turn the tap off, your house would flood, with the whole street following soon after, finally resulting in a Biblical Deluge which would basically destroy the world. A panicky "forgot which way to turn the tap off" incident, combined with a number of nightmares about small leaks in the walls of our home, saw me become the "Guardian of the Taps" at my kindergarten. When time came to wash up before our snack, I would man the sink and ensure the safety of our planet.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- I used to think that if you left the taps on for too long the sea would run out.— fletch
- I used to believe that if I ate too many watermelons I would turn into water...— Peter
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I used to believe that if you soaked a raisin (or prune) in water, it would turn back into a grape (or plum).— C.C.