When I was little my mom to me that if I didn't get out of the tub I would turn wrinkly and stay that way. For quite a few years I thought that old people with lots of wrinkles had stayed in the tub too long!
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- I used to think wrinkles came about because people just grew too much skin.Anon
- I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming— Amy
- 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 believe that the wrinkles on my dad's forehead were his feelings.— Suzy
- I used to think when someone had wrinkles on their forehead, it meant they had a headacheAnon