toilets

I used to believe…

when i was about 5 and my sister was about 4, our mother had told us that after you went poop a little tidy bowl man in a canoe with oars would swim up to your poop, pick it up, and take it to his family. so my sister and i would always go to the bathroom then put the toilet seat down and stare into the cracks to see the little man. and unfortunately we never saw him. but now i am 15 and i know about sewage lines. lol

I used to believe…

when i was about 9 my friend told me that snakes came through the pipes and would bite your butt... so everytime i went to the bath room i would go as fast as i could so the "snakes" wouldn't get me

I used to believe…

when i was little, i looked up to my brother, older than me by 5 years. We shared a room until i was seven.
At night, when he would go to the bathroom and flush the toilet. He would then RUN down the hall and jump into his bed and pull up his covers really fast
I asked him why he did this, and he said that by the time the toilet finishes flushing, you have to be in your bed and under your covers or the Boogie Man would come and eat you. Of course, i believed him.
When i was about six, i went to the bathroom at night. I flushed the toilet and ran down the hall. However, i was a very clumsy child, and i ran into the wall. By the time i rubbed my foot, the toilet had stopped flushing, and i wasnt in my room! i ran into my parents room and cried, kissing them madly and saying i was going to get eaten...

...my parents still laugh about that one. Thank you so much older brother...

I used to believe…

when i was about 7 i saw this weird programme about snakes and for some reason i associated it with toilets so for years afterwards i used to be petrified of the toilet flush thinking the noise would attract the snakes to come up from inside the toilet and bite my backside or something so id flush the loo and run out the toilet as fast as i could to escape -it wasnt till i was about 9 when i realised how ridiculous i was being so i decided to face my fear and one day i stayed next to the loo as i flushed it - it was really loud and as i didnt see any snakes i thought i must have scared them off with my new sense of bravery *sigh* they were the good old days...

I used to believe…

when i was, like, seven or eight, i used to beleive that my scarey looking dolls lived in the toilet. So when ever i went to the bathroom, I turned around and check if they were there ready to pounce on me and rip me to shreds!

I used to believe…

For some reason when I was young I used to think that I would have to flush before the toilet paper got completly wet, and I had to book it out of the bathroom before it was done flushing.

So, if I was at the movies or at a restaurant I would almost run into people to get out as fast as I could.

I used to believe, that the toilet-flusher was a magic button and that witches would come and get me if I flushed.....

I used to believe…

when I was about 7 I thought that if you left the lid up when you flushed the toliet the loch ness monster could come up and get you...a pretty common idea for a kid, but what makes my tale weirder still (or perhaps not for the media centric adult Ive become) was that I was convinced Id see a World In Action (bit like 60 Minutes if you're American) show all about this so it MUST be true!

I used to believe…

When I was in first grade we watched a movie at school about volcanoes. For some reason, for about a month after seeing that movie I was absolutely convinced that lava would come up through the toilet if I took too long. I tried to go to the bathroom as quickly as possible & flush as quickly as possible to avoid the lava.

I used to believe…

When I was a kid, my parents used to warn my sisters and I not to sit for too long on the toilet or you would grow a cord out of your bum that would attach to the toilet and you would be stuck there forever... the thought still scares me..

I used to believe…

When i was younger there used to be a show on about a family of dinisours..one of which lived in the tiolet. so i would always check befor i went to the bathroom to make sure he wasnt in my toilet

I used to believe…

When i was young i observed that a squre of toilet paper is bigger than the hole it flushes down i dident no that the paper cured up wen it went down so i assumed it was magic one day i thot if 1 peice of paper can go down maybe more can i then tried to flush a full not unravveled roll of paper down for many years my mum dident no y 1 day there was a toilet paper roll floating in the bowl!

I used to think when u flused the toilet if you dident leave b4 it was done flushing it would explode! So i would alawas get steched and ready 2 run then flush and scamble away! LOL!

I used to believe…

When I was young, in the early sixties, I used to believe that snakes lived in the outhouse at my aunt's house. I even had the heebie jeebies if I thought about it while sitting on a flush toilet since I had lived in Florida when I was 6-8 and had heard the alligator in the sewer stories. I never could quite convince myself they weren't true.

I used to believe…

For some reason, the sound of a flushing toilet always scared me more at night than in the daytime, so when I had to go to the bathroom at night, I'd either go without flushing, and promise myself I'd do it first thing in the morning, or flush it and run as fast as I could to my room!

I used to believe that when the toilet was flushed, the loud noise was a monster growling at me. I would run as fast as I could to my bedroom and hide under the bedclothes until the noise stopped.