toilets

I used to think that when you flushed the toilet big numbers would come out, followed by your worst fears. To this day I have to unlock the stall before I flush.

I used to believe…

When I was young, I had some bathroom fears... One of the worst ones was this:

I was terrified that if I stayed in the bathroom when I flushed the toilet, a drain dwelling ghost would come out and get me. So I'd flush and run.

I used to believe…

when i wus 8 i had just learned about Fred Kreuger and i thougt if i went into the bathroom while the light was off, more thane once, taht he would come out of the toiledt and rip my face off. my mind is weird

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When we were little (I was 6 and my sister was 5) if I wanted to make my little sister do something she didnt want to do (e.g. do my work, give me her ice cream, let me play with her toys etc), I would storm off to the bathroom, hang my foot just above the toilet and say "if you dont do this, I'm gonna flush myself down the toilet, die and go away forever!"

The poor thing would believe that I would actually die and in her love for me, would do anything I asked her to...

Yeah I know it was mean...but still pretty brilliant for a 6 year old dont you think? I mean it did work didnt it???

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when i was little I used to believe that when i pooped or pee, that some underground monster would eat it. After all who knows at the age of 3 where your potty goes, but anyways if the monster didn't get any food for a while i thought that he would reach through and grab the person on the potty and pull them through.... It took me a while to use the toilet

I was a terrible older sibling. When my brother was 4 and I was about 6, I told him, for no reason, that when he flushed the toilet he would wake up all the monsters in the house and they would come and get him. Later I saw him running from the bathroom after flushing, with his hands over his ears! I felt really bad at the time, but now, 13 years later, its really funny.

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When I was little, I didn't understand why my mom told me to wash my hands after going to the bathroom - I honestly believed it was because toilet paper was somehow poisonous.

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When i was little i used to think that aliens controlled the toilet. If the lid was down, i'd have to enter a long, complicated code into the toilet by punching invisible digits on the lid before I could use the restroom. I messed myself a few times as a result of this long code. However, if I failed to enter the code or entered it incorrectly, the aliens would kill me on the crapper. And that to my young mind would have been the ultimate embarassment--to die on the crapper, just like elvis

I really think my older brother had it in for me. When I was little he told me that it was OK to pee into the toilet, but if I pooped a monster would come out of the toilet and pull me down into it. I really believed him. When I had to do the "number 2" I couldn't think of anywhere else to go besides behind the couch in the living room. I absolutely feared the toilet monster. My parents would always catch me in the middle of the act, and they worried about me for weeks. It got to the point where I would be behind the couch and my mother would say, "What are you doing?" and I would grunt, "Nnnnnooooothing" One day, I finally told my mom what my brother said...and, well, you can imagine how long he was grounded.

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When I was little, I used to watch this cartoon called "Cow and Chicken". Basically one episode delt with cooties( eww) and they said you can get cooties from the toilet seat. Ironically (spelling?), it wasn't the cow or the chicken that said that, it was the grown up lady..... Let's just say I waited to take a shower to go to the bathroom....

I used to believe…

For some reason, I had convinced myself that monsters lived in our toilets. So whenever I went to the bathroom, I had to be out of the bathroom and a certain distance away (e.g. down the hall, or in another room) before the toilet stopped making the "flushing noise", and if I wasn't the monsters would eat me.

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When my second born son was about 3 and was potty training he dookie downed a huge long poo and he stood up and looked in the toilet and started crying really really hard. He yelled to his dad and I to come and make the sneak (he couldn't say snake) go away. He refused to go poo after that for the longest time because he thought snakes were in the toilet.

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When I was little I used to believe that the water closet on a standard household toilet is where all the excrement went. It always felt kinda odd sitting next to all that filth while you did your business, and you could not pay me enough to open the lid. It wasn't until my dad had to fix the floater that I found out how it worked... but even then I remember standing at the door of the bathroom inching forward to see what was inside.

i used to belive that my toilet was a gateway to another dimension and when i was three (i was very small and skinny) i sat in the toilet and flushed my self and the water span me round and i was thinking "wow im going to another dimension". when i opened my eyes i was facing the other way and all i saw was white from the back of my toilet so i leaped out and grabbed some toilet paper and ran around my house spreading it everywhere so that i could "destroy the bad guys of the next dimension" until my dad stopped me and sent me to my room. I still wait for the right time to re-enter that dimension!

I used to believe…

When I was little, I was tarrified when the the toilet flushed. I would think that a monster would come out. So, when ever I flushed the toilet I would run full speed out of the bathroom.

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For some reason I got the idea that a lobster lived in the toilet and would pinch my butt with its sharp giant claws. I was afraid to sit on the toilet and would try to be as fast as I could when going to the bathroom. I must have been about 6 or 7 at this time.

The really strange thing is that I had very little exposure to seafood growing up, so I have no idea where this belief came from. I see I'm not the only one who thought something scary lived down there, though...

I used to believe when i was young that there where monsters in the toilet. I would never have went to the bathroom alone, only if someone waited with me until i had finished the business. This caused problems at night time, i was so afraid to go to the bathroom on my own, never mind going in the dark. I sorted this out by using my room as my personal bathroom, so much to my parents digust.

I remember when I was young I'd always forget to flush the toilet. Then one day my day told me that if I dont flush it a giant poo monster would come out of the toilet and eat me.