This is so embarrassing, but my dad used to tell us that when you fart it's your bodies way of telling you you have to go to the bathroom!! If we farted more than once he'd be like "Ok, go to the bathroom already!"
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you farted really hard, you could fart a hole in your pants. How dumb was that?— stargirl
- That only men farted. I literally started sobbing the first time I realized I farted.Anon
- I used to believe teachers never had to go to the bathroomAnon
- When I was little, I thought it was harmful to eat while you were going to the bathroom. Anon
- There's a bad moon on the rise = There's a bathroom on the rightAnon
- I used to think that priests and teachers never used the bathroom.Anon