I was always told not to flush the toilet when someone was in the shower. I thought it was because the toilet water came out of the shower. I cried so hard when my mum flushed the toilet while I was showering!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo