weeing and pooing

My mother used to call going pee - having to 'tinkle', and going poo,
having to make a 'bm'. Now I work for IBM and it always make me
laugh when I say it. Thanks Mom!

IBM'er

As a child I somehow came to the conclusion that it was impossible to pee and poo at the same time. Twenty-five years later, I still occasionally catch myself squeezing both out at once just to prove that I can.

SWC

Because my older sister sat down when she peed, I assumed that females eliminated all waste (pee AND poo) from their anus. I held this belief even though--at 13--a diagram of the female body in my health ed class had something on it called the "urethra." It still didn't register. (My female friends finally straightened me out one night during a "pressing matters" chat session, after laughing until they--quite fittingly--almost peed their pants.) I was 18!!!

BK (ignorant male)

Because boys go #1 standing up while girls sit down, this must mean that boys don't ever have to go #2 since you have to sit down to do it. This mis-belief was cleared up when I walked in on my dad doing #2 after he had neglected to lock the bathroom door.

Robin Unger

My boyfriends dad told him and his brothers that rocks were made from horse pooh so the bigger the rock... the more the horses poohed. They believed this for years and years(abnormally long time)

Tracey#6

my mum told me that poo was actually hershey's kisses, and that there were little elves in the toilet who made candy from the kisses that came out of your bum. i didn't question this at all, but did ask if my best friend got white chocolate candy... since i was black and she was white this made perfect sense.

luckily not hungry

when i was a kid, we swam in a lake. My sister always told me that when you hit a warm spot, it was where someone had just pee. I believed her, and everytime i hit a warm spot, i swam as fast as i could in the other direction!

Paula S.

I used to believe that drinking even a drop of urine would kill you. My brother and I made a special "stew" once that we'd both peed in, and then made the girl from down the road drink some (a tiny sip). We spent days battling extreme guilt, sure that she would die at any second.

L

When I was a kid, I used to believe that females never went to the restroom, farted,or burped.

michael

As a young child, I was potty trained quite successfully, except for one slight problem: I never knew you were supposed to LIFT the cover of the toilet first.

"In, Not On," as my mum would tell me.

Then of course, there was the slight problem with me confusing the towels and the toilet paper. :/

Hey, I was 4 or 5, give me a break. :p

J.C.

my folks told me that if i didnt wipe properly, my butt hole could seal....

i made sure to wipe properly for about 7 years, and made them check to see if it was clean.

Anon

i was told that if i ever saw someone else peeing in the bathroom i'd grow a little sty in my eye. to this day i do not allow anyone to watch, nor do i like to watch anyone pee.

dsc

I don't know why I thought this, but when I was in kindergarten I had a friend and I thought that instead of having a butt, that she had to bring a little shovel with her into the bathroom and shovel the poop out....odd isn't it? I was a very imaginative kid...

Anna

when my daughter was about 3 she would poo on her play dishes and say "I'm making dinner for you".

Anon