Our bathtub drain didn't have the little metal strainer in it, it was just a hole. It made this horrible sound when draining, it got worse as the water level dropped.
When I was 4 or 5, my older brother came into the bathroom just as I pulled the plug. He told me that sharks could come up into the tub since we didn't have the strainer in there. I remember telling him he was full of it, but I never pulled the plug again until I was out of the tub.
Now I tell my kids that the strainer is there to prevent shark attacks.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- 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
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- i used to belive that if my brother pulled a hair out of my arm i would die in 5 seconds — heidi
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa