When I was small and allowed to set up the bathwater myself I believed that the water could get so hot that it would finally freeze.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I asked my father what holy water was. He told me it was the priest's bathwater. — Gwen
- When i was very small i used to beleive that your eyelids would freeze if you let the wind get into them.— Wind girl
- As a small child I believed that the word was "nakeup", finally I found out that it was actually "makeup".— Hannnah P.
- I had the weird superstition that if I let all the bathwater run out it'd suck my soul down with it too.— Dan
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- Until I was around 9 or 10 I believed that a woman was only allowed to marry a man who was older than her. — Rose