toilets

I used to believe…

There was a creepy old photo of my great-great-grandparents hanging on the wall in the hallway directly across from the bathroom in the house I grew up in. As my grandmother was convinced that I would "get up to mischief" (who knows what she thought I'd do) in any room with the door closed, I wasn't allowed to close the bathroom door. I'd pee or poo as quickly as I could, averting my eyes from the creepy old folks in the picture, then flush-n-run like a mad thing -- I thought the people in the creepy picture could see me in the bathroom and would kill me if they knew I knew they could...

I used to believe…

My cousin told me that there was a creature in outhouses (we did a lot of camping) called the toilet Dracula that had a head like Dracula and the body of a snake. It would crawl up the hole in the toilet and bite you when you sat on it. I was horryfied for years.

I used to believe…

It all started when I was little, but I have an irrational fear of the lid being off the tank of the toilet. I won't go near it if the lid is off. I still don't know why exactly....

I used to believe that i shouldn't hear the flushing sound of the toilet. Therefore for a while in my childhood, i kept running away immediately after i flushed the toilet. How about my hands... i always don't rememebr....

I thought flushing the potty would flush me down there, also. Mama says I was almost 4 before I was trained.

i used to believe that there was something living in the loo and that when you flushed it, that 'thing' popped up. so i would flush the loo and run out of the bathroom as fast as i can. I still get scared(at the age of 18) when i flush the loo on an plane (i think its the noise it makes)

I once had a dream that this big scary gorilla came out of the toilet and chased me. After that, I was afraid it really would happen and was always putting the top down.

I used to believe…

When I was 4 years old my older sister told me that there was a monster in the toilet and, whenever I flushed it the monster would come out to get me... I would flush it and run like there was no tomorrow(I thought that there wouldn't be if the monster got me!). That fear lasted until I was 5.

I used to believe…

Until i was about 6, i always was afriad the toilet would over flow when i flushed it. So i never would. Until my parents started to yell at me for it. So eachtime before I flushed it, I would close the lid, stand on it, and hope for the best. At times I would remain standing on the toilet lid for up to 10 minutes, just to make sure.

I used to believe untill I was seven that I can fall into the toilet while sittingand be flushed.I didn't realise that I was to big. Even my parents couldn't calm me.

I used to believe that all the waste from the toilet was stored in the cystern

I used to believe that there was a witch in the toilet who looked at my bum every time I went. Consequently I was always in a rush on the loo, and was terrified of flushing because that's when she could come out and grab me...

I used to believe…

When I was little, my older cousin told me that there was a "Potty Monster" that lived in the toilet and would grab your bum if you flushed the toilet while you were still sitting on it.

I used to think that spiders lived under the toilet seat, and would crawl out from underneath and bite me in the behind while i was using the bathroom at night for waking them up.

I used to believe…

My sister convinced me that the water in toilets was recycled into drinking water. This was confirmed when some kids at school flushed an ant farm down the toilet. There were ants coming out of the water fountain (for real, I'm not making this up).

I used to believe…

a family member went around telling me that dead people came up through the toilets. So from then on I always thought that the people who died came up through the toilet when they wanted to. Especially when you were on it.