When I was four my dad and much older brother took me to see Men in Black at the cinemas, and when the shop bloke has his head blown off and grew it back, I became terrified of flushing the toilet incase he grew out of it (I was v.young!). My mum went mad when she realised :D I still get scared flushing the loo now!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think if you didnt get up before flushing the toilet would eat you...Anon
- i used to think when it started raining it was god flushing the toilet— edel
- I was certain that rain was created by God having a pee and flushing his huge toilet above us— Emma H
- I used to believe that if you didn't close the toilet lid after flushing, you would get sucked down into it.— Maya
- My best friend used to believe that when it rain and thundered that God was flushing his toilet. — Jelly Bean
- I used to believe the sound of a flushing toilet was nearly identical to the 90210 theme. — Laurenne