When I would have my swimming lessons, I would belt it down the pool, not because I wanted to become an Olympic medallist, I didn't want the sharks, or worse, the whales, to eat me while I swam! I still swim pretty quickly in the deep end....
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the waterAnon
- I used to believe that the waves in the ocean were made from whales swimming by...— Tina
- when I was a child I thougt taht sea waves are the result of whales swimming— waleed bokhari
- i used to believe that pools had underwater doors that sharks were going to swim out of.— marky
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon