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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..

sore butt

Since the toilet was connected to the pipes that went out to the ocean (eventually) i thought that the big mud crabs or lobsters might crawl up the pipe and get into our toilet, so everytime i went to the toilet i used to check for crabs or lobsters, to make sure they wouldn't bite my bottom, and i peed as quietly as i could so i wouldn't disturb them.

Sara

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

Anon

I used to believe that if you flushed the toilet while sitting on it, the force of the suction would pull you in.

Anon

When I was young, my family lived in the U.K. During that time, I was convinced that the Loch Ness Monster had the ability to swim up through our toilet and attack me while I was on the loo. Needless to say, I felt a great deal of angst whenever I had to use the restroom.

Stephanie

I used to believe that there was a genie living down our toilet, and that whenever he wanted 'food' he wished for it and one of the people in our house would have to go and provide it. It was very scary!

Anon

i used to beleive that george washington was hiding in my toilett and he would bite me if i wasn't carefull...

needless to say that bathrooms were a scary place for some time...

Anon

when i was about 5 i had a very strange dream about toilets. i dreamed that there was this kind of toilet monster that was invisible in the water and smelled strongly of pertrol. he would jump out of the toilet as you sat down and then you could see him, and he looked like a man with hamburger meat stuck all over him.

for 4 years i was always afraid of using the toilet in a public place when no one else was in the restroom. if there were more people there would therefore be more witnesses to my tragic demise and he would be found out.

kay

I used to believe that if I didn't get out of the bathroom before the toilet stoped flushing, that a wicth would pop up, and stare at me untill I left the room. I dunnpo why.

what was I thinking?

When I was around 3 or 4, I used to believe that it was bad to sit on the toilet for too long because I thought that burglars were able to get into the house through the sewer system and up into the toilet! I was scared that the longer I sat on the toilet, the more likely it was for a burglar to come up the toilet as I was sitting there and steal me!

K.B.

I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant.

Camille

I have no clue why, but when I was very little I used to believe that if the toilet stoped flushing before I got out of the bathroom that it would explode and kill me. Don't worry folks, I make sure to stop to wash my hands now ^_^

Hollychick

I used to be scared ****less (excuse the pun) of the toilet as, for a few weeks, when I flushed it the water would rise abnormally to the very top of the loo and stop there just before flooding. I thought it was doing it only to me as it was evil or something and to nobody else. It turned out tree roots had grown into the sewer pipes...

Glyn

When I was young I would always look between my legs into the toilet while I went pottie. I figured if I saw the lobsters as they were coming out I would make a break for it and I might get out before they pinched my bum.

Tabitha

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet it would set of a ghost alarm and they would all fly out of the toilet. so whenever i flushed it i would run as fast as i could down the stairs so the ghosts didnt get me.

ganzo

i used to believe that 2 skeletons with pick axes and those hardhats with lights on them, would tunnel under ground towards me, and they would reach me if i stayed on the toilet too long at night

anastacia beeverhousen

I used to believe that there were alligators that lived in the toilets and that they would bite my butt if I didn't do my business quick enough.

Anon

When I was 4, AIDS was the cultural zeitgeist, propagated by fear especially from the Reagan administration. Fueled by this, alongside the "stranger danger" cultural provocation of the time, my mother had been fairly stern in her warnings of an imperceptible risk of a stranger kidnapping me, molesting me and giving me AIDS. When asked, her response was that AIDS could come from anywhere. At some point in pre-school I had something on the tip of my tongue which I attempted to wipe off using the hand-roll dryer and for several weeks I lived in near constant fear that I had perhaps contracted AIDS from the towel dispenser - for surely, a molester would also lurk in the restroom.

Andy

if i didn't get to the bottom of the stairs before the toilet finished flushing, the invisible foxes would get me.

ben

I used to believe that when i flushed the toilet, freddy kruger would come out and try to grab me. hence i would always flush the toilet and then race out of the bathroom at full tilt.

no longer afaid of toilets