When I was young, I heard a lot of talk about nuclear war. Something put the idea in my head that if I was in the bathtub I would be safe.
One Halloween when I was about 2 or 3 some guy decided to let off firecrackers in the field across the street. I imediately dove in the bathtub. This came in handy about a year later when our neighbour got into a shoot out with the police. (Yes, it was a bad part of town). We moved shortly after that. When we got to the new house, I was sure to pick out the room directly across from the bathroom.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- That there was a zombie living behind the bathtub in the upstairs bathroom.Anon
- I used to believe that if I fell asleep in the bathtub I would wake up in the sea.— Brenda
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy
- I used to think "firecrackers" we're some kind of really spicy cracker.— MAG