toilets

I used to believe…

When my son was about 2 and a half, after he would go potty in the toilet, he would flush it and looking into the bowl and waving he'd say, "Bye poo poo, bye pee pee". Like they were a living part of his body. It sounds disgusting but it was really very cute and I love to remind him of it...every now and then. ;)

I used to think that snakes lived in the sewer and hung around in toilets, and that one day when I least expected it one would bite me on the butt. I was about 20 at the time. I have a horrible horrible fear of snakes and still look into the toilet before every sitting!

I used to believe…

When i was younger and i had just been to the toilet, i used to open the door, lean in, flush the toilet and run away because i thought something would come up and get me.

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before i started cleaning house, i never knew how the toilet got clean after each use (especially in public bathrooms where there was no mommy with a toilet brush). it seeped into my imagination somehow that there were short, green gremlins in blue overalls which would climb out of the back of the toilet and hold up wooden signs that said "BUSY - CLEANING," then start scrubbing exactly when i flushed it. this terrified me for years, until i got chore-lists and found out they were small CHILDREN that had to clean the thing. -- and i was one of them!

I used to have a huge fear of the public toilets you see dotted around on the pavement in the UK, the electronic ones where you put a 10p coin in when you want to use it and the door opens for you. It scared me witless when my mum told me that the floor tipped up to get rid of your wee after you left. I've only ever used one once since.

I used to believe a crocodile god lived in the toilet. He was only awake at night. I was always nervous going at night, worried that I was disturbing him and he was going to come out and eat me. I always got off the toilet as quickly as possible and shut the lid before I flushed. I didn't even want to be around the toilet with the lid open.

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In junior school, I used to believe that I would die if I didn't get out of the door before the towel machine clicked after you'd pulled out a fresh section.

i used to believe that behind the automatic flushing toilets in public restrooms that there was a person watching you go...so they knew when to flush for you. im still not convinced that somebody isnt there.

I used to believe…

The toilet was an interesting thing to me, I could never figure out where everything went, so I used to think that when you went to the bathroom you were actually feeding a whole community of tiny people underground, so when you made a big poop, they were really happy about it.

I had a very strange thing about toilets... when I was very young in my mother's exercise class, I was in the child care in the back by the bathrooms and one of the toilets got clogged, but instead of just quietly overflowing, it made this really loud noise and was squirting water everywhere. I thought it was a monster, and to make matters worse since I was the oldest kid there I had to go up in front of all the exercising ladies and tell the instructor about it while the child care lady tried to turn off the water. After that I was terrified of sitting on or standing next to a toilet when I flushed it, I'd stand up and step away, reach allll the way over to flush, and then run away. This was particularly difficult in bathroom stalls where the door opened inward.

i was told that God could see you wherever you were... i figured that included when you were on the loo, and being a shy little thing, I didn't want God to see me on the loo... so I didn't go for two days!!!

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After seeing JAWS the film on TV when I was very young I was scared of visiting the toilet.

There is a young woman who gets killed at the start and I believed I'd see her arm in the toilet bowl.

I used to believe…

in the town I grew up in there was a row of about twenty houses that where divided into two flats for each house. The sign out the front of the estate said ''emergency flats". I believed that these were flats where the toilets where realy close to every room in the house, in case there was an 'emergency'!

I believed that the sound of the toilet flushing was the devil, and so I make it out of the bathroom as soon as I could after flushing it, otherwise the devil would get me (I was Catholic, by the way- and am no longer).

I used to be believe that, in public restrooms, when you flushed the toilet, the lights would go out (and you wouldn't be able to find the way out of the restroom, etc.). Then, one day, it happened. Seriously.

I used to believe…

For about a year when I was little, I had to reach my hand in the toilet (not the water, just inside the bowl) to feel and make sure there wasn't an invisible monster in it before I could use it.

I once killed a big yucky spider and flushed it down the toilet. My friend told me that I shouldn't have done that because animals got mutated in the sewers and grew really big and could climb out and attack people. For years I did my nmber 1's and 2's in record time to minimise the danger. It was all I could do to contain the screaming....