When I was little, I thought the banging noise coming from the pipes in my bathroom were little men cleaning them out.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that thunder was the bricks of our house banging together for some reason.— Ncik
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that car exhaust pipes were what propelled cars, instead of the engines.— Thomas Johnston
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt
- I used to believe that there was only one janitor who traveled around from school to school cleaning up.— Joey Pilot