When I was about 5 I believed my sister would go down the drain if she stayed in the bathtub when the drain let out. I would plead with her to get out before the water ran out.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- I used to think that trolls lived in my shower drain and showered with my dirty water— Troll bather
- I used to think a drain pipe in my backyard led to another world.Anon
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- in this TV show i saw a snake coming up from the drain so everytime i take a shower i go really fast!— scared person