My best friend has a pool, and when we were little her mom would always tell us that if we peed in the pool a giant purple ring would form around us and everyone would know we peed and would laugh at us. So I didn't pee in the pool. I believed that up until I was ten when I searched it on google.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- My big brother told me that if you peed in the pool, it would turn purple and chase you.— Elizabeth
- my aunt told us there was a special chemical in the pool that would turn red if we peed in it.Anon
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- When I was little, my dad told me that if you pee in the pool the water will turn purpleAnon
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)— cady