I used to believe that if I went in the public pool with the boy from our school who was missing a leg - that mine would fall off too. So I didn't get in.
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I always though as a kid that "To Let" signs were public conveniences with an I missing. Really.— Col
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne