I always hated taking a bath because I believed I would get sucked down the drain. I learned this from the Ernie Kovacs (sic) show which my dad watched on a regular basis. At one point this show featured a hand sticking up through a draining bathtub drain.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- 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
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- 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
- I used to think that 'black comedy' was show like Family Matters and The Cosby Show.— Katie
- I used to think that every time a show came on tv, that the actors were inside my tv acting out the show.Anon