My older sister told me that if you stayed in the tub while it was draining, you would get stucked down with the water. From then on, I would get out of the tub as quickly as possible.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- My Sister Used To Believe She Could Fly By Driniking Water From A Magic Forton. I Told She Couldn't.— Zoe
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon