i used to think that you would die if you didn't wait 30 minutes to go into the pool after eating. (^^)
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- You had to wait an hour after eating ANYTHING, even one M&M, before swimming. Anon
- I believed that the Kreepy Crawlie used to clean our pool, would follow me around the pool and eat me. — Mother-of-2
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon