When I was very young, about 4 or 5, we used to spend a lot of time at my grandparents' farm house. Now at the time, they weren't that well off, so the bathroom was just a step up from an outhouse. It was a bucket with a toilet lid in the basement corner. Well basements are already creepy enough for a child, let alone a little girl. There used to be all these spiders with really long legs, and my mom would explain to me that they were daddy long legs. This really bothered me, and I never wanted to use the bathroom and would fight with my mom. She finally asked why and I said that daddy long leg spiders had to be boys and I didn't want boys to watch me pee. My grandparents still get a good chuckle over that one.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- i used to beleve that the sun had thin long legs and followd me wherever i went..— Hege
- I thought the “Slippery When Wet” traffic sign was a car that had grown long bendy legs.Anon
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon