One summer afternoon when I was around six years old, the family was at my aunt and uncle's house for some sort of party. I was in the pool, and my dad and his cousins were watching me, making sure I didn't drown. As I was swimming, I wondered out loud if my uncle could buy a slide for his pool. My father, who I suppose was bored and possibly a little drunk, decided it would be fun to tell me there was a slide.
I swear, I looked for that slide for thirty minutes straight. And every time I asked where it was, someone would point to the opposite side of the pool and say, "It's right there!" until my dad decided to stop torturing me and told me there wasn't a slide.
For years, I thought that slide had disappeared off the face of the earth, and I was the only person who didn't get to see it before it "left"
A childhood belief about swimming pools
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon
- 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
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- my aunt told us there was a special chemical in the pool that would turn red if we peed in it.Anon
- I believed that the ladder on the back of a trailer/rv led up to a swimming pool.— marilese