toilets

I use to believe there was a monster in the toilet that could come out when I flushed so after doing my business I always washed my hands first then flushed and made a run for it.

I used to believe…

When little, after seeing the movie of IT the clown, I got this horrible fear to the toilet. I imagined that when sat down on the toilet, IT would stretch out his hand and pull me through the plumbing. Once, my sister had to make me company because I was so afraid of it, that I wanted not to go unless she came with me.

I used to belive that little people actually lived in the place where the water of the toilet fills up. When someone went to the bathroom and pulled the lever, I imagined that the fisiological needs were sent to the place were the water filled up, and then, the little men would eat what someone had done in the toilet.

I used to think that if I didn't leave the bathroom after the toilet was done flushing, the toilet water would flood and there was a magic wall that prevented the water from going out of the room. Needless to say, I figured out that it wasn't true, but I was still in the habit of running away from the room before the flushing was stopped. Now I'm out of the habit.

I used to believe…

...that the Wicked Witch of the West (saw The Wizard of Oz too young, apparently) would come swirling out of the toilet to grab me when I flushed. I still have scars on my knees from falling all over myself, madly exiting whatever building I was in at the time, school included =P

I used to think that when I flushed the toilet, as the water was swirling around, a puppet like boy/creature in a sailors suit was swirling up to GET me! and i had to run to a room with other people before it stopped flushing! :)

I used to believe if you peed after someone else peed and didn't flush, the toilet would blow up. So I would have to flush the toilet before going, which lots of times ended in me peeing myself waiting for it to all go down.

I used to believe that you had to put the toilet seat down before you flushed it. I used to think that if I saw the water being flushed down the toilet it was going to suck me down there as well!! Somehow lol!! And I'm still scared of those automatic flushers that you get in airports where you have to put your hand near it and the toilet flushes automatically, it really freaks me out!!

I was always convinced that the water tank in our bathroom would kill me, so I'd have to pee and flush the toilet, then run out the bathroom really quickly before it started to growl. Even now at 22, I'm terrified of all tanks that contain water and are raised of the ground. I can't even look inside a toilet cistern!!!

I used to believe I had 25 seconds to use the bathroom before a monster ate my butt. So I would pull down pants & start the count down. From start to flush I had to be done in 25 seconds. I think this led to a life full of constipation.

I used to believe…

Umm anyone ever been in the horror section of Blockbuster and seen the cover of the cheesy horror movie called Ghoulies? Yeah, it wasn't so cheesy when I was a kid, and after I saw that you better believe my butt was hovering over that toilet for months. No way was I going to get attacked by the ghoulie in my toilet.

I used to believe…

This is terrible...
When I was younger(maybe five-ish) I had heard that Elvis Presley had died on a toilet, so I always thought that if you flushed the toilet, his ghost would come out and get you. I didn't flush the toilet for 2 or 3 years...

I also thought that you got pregnant from kissing.

I used to believe…

For some reason I would believe that If I didn't exit the bathroom before the toilet would stop flushing Freddy Kruger would kill me. So as soon as I flushed it I would wash my hands frantically and sprint out the door.

I used to believe…

When I was little, my mom used to watch the X-Files alot, and once I heard her and my aunt talking about an episode that involved a woman becoming pregnant with an alien or something like that. For some reason I associated this with the toilet, and I thought there was an alien living in the toilet that would come out and get me whenever I flushed. So when I was done, I would stand up, flush, and run like hell for fear that there would be a huge flash of green light and the alien would come and get me. I had an overactive imagination.

i used to think that the toilet was a portal to another word and if you drank the water inside it couldn't transport you so i used to get my dog fluffy and make him drink all the water. my mom always got mad when there wasn't any water in the toilet!

I was always kind of afraid to use public bathrooms because i thought that if anybody else was in there and they heard me they would go back to there group of friends and talk about the noises they heard

I used to believe that snakes could climb out of the toilet and bite you. So every time I had to go I would pre-flush the toilet no less than 3 times before I would even sit on it. Just in case a snake was crawing up the pipes he would be dissoriented him long enough for me to pee in peace!

I used to believe…

My sister was taking too long washing her hands in the bathrom, so I told her that she had to hurry up or else a monster would come out of the toilet and get her. But then, I started to believe that it would actually happen, so Id wash my hands first, THEN flush the toilet and run out as fast as I could.

I was told that snakes travelled around in the plumbing and occasionally emerged from the toilet, and sometimes an unfortunate person would be sitting down there at the time.

As a child, I figured three things: One, that this was a ploy to stop me spending so much time in the bathroom; two, that it was hard luck for the snake to have to swim through all that mess, so who could blame it; and three, that it was obviously untrue, because how could a snake breathe underwater?

It was with mixed feelings some years later when I found out that this actually does happen.