My dad used to tell me and my sisters that there was a giant plughole in the harbour, and that there was no water there at certain times of day because someone had pulled the plug out. ...For years I looked for that plug every time we drove past!
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- My dad use to tell me that if I swallowed gum it would plug up my bum hole and eventually I would explode,— Carrie
- when i was around 3 or 4 i belived that the sea had a large plug like a bath and it was draind every night — James Cameron
- I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)— Mike