I used to go to a pool where there was a sign that said "Shower before entering pool." Some letters fell off so it said "Shower bef", so I thought another name for the pool was the "shower bef". My dad played along with it and asked if I wanted to go to the baby pool or the shower bef.
A childhood belief about swimming pools

others believed things like this
- 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 believe that take a shower meant to go steal a shower from the storeAnon
- I used to think that toilets led to the shower head. That's why I never took a shower :D— scared
- I used to think that a "pool shark" was an actual shark that lived in a swimming poolAnon
- I used to believe that if you took a shower after a day of tanning the tan would come off in the shower— Shar
- I used to believe that a baby shower was a tiny bathtub with a showerhead just for the baby.— Amy