general

I used to believe that when you flushed the toilet it went underground to a chamber.the liquid went off to your taps.There was a covier belt were all the solids went.sOME PEOPL LIVED DOWN THEIR AND COULD pick the things they wanted from the convier belt.I one dropped a mini torch down accidently and I thought someone would take it and use it.

Fleurby

I used to believe that the automatic toilets were automatic because a little man sat in a booth behind the wall and when he saw you get up he would push a button and then flush the toilet for you but somethimes the toilet would flush with you on it or they wouldnt flush at all so ii would get up and yell at the little man for doingthat

maggie was mad

As a young child, I would always wonder where our...toilet waste would go when we flushed the toilet. I used to think that there would be this guy in a chair with a desk and there would be little pipes on the wall and all the poo and pee would go into little rubbermaid containers with labels.

Chalupa Taco

when i was young i thought toilets were monsters that ate and drank our cranp and piss!

soccer_chick

I used to think that toilets led to the shower head. That's why I never took a shower :D

scared

For years I thought that 'TO LET' signs on buidings were actually advertising
toilets to use & used to get annoyed at the fact no-one could spell properly.

Anon

I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.

silly

I used to believe that there were little creatures that lived in the toilet and nibbled on your butt while you were taking a crap!

Rainbow

When i was little i put my hand in the toilet because i was going to the bathroom for the first time...

Dylan

When I was a kid I would never use the stalls in public restroom which has air vents over them. I always believed there was a hidden camera in there watching my every move. To this day I still avoid those stalls.

Jemmie-Bean

When I was about 6 years old, I decided (all on my own apparently) that when you flushed the toilet it all went under the house. And that there was a hugh Gnome city under the house and many of the gnomes were like mine workers and it must be them who took all of the poop away. I don't think I ever got really clear on what they did with it. But I knew it had to go somewhere after that.

Grewupwithnobasement

When i was about 6, i saw a bidet in a hotel bathroom. i asked my mum what it was for and she told me it was for people to wash the snow off their boots when they came in the winter. i realised the truth when i was 16!

Vicky

When I went to camp a couple of years back, when I was about 9, there were two bathrooms, and on one of the bathroom doors it had a little sticker that said , "Toilet camera used for research only." So I told the entire cabin that if you didn't hurry up and do your business, the toilet camera would snap a picture of your butt!

Sarah

When I was a junior school, the girls had 2 rows of cubicles in their toilets, one with high level cisterns (like in the boys) and the other with (what I now know were) close-coupled WC/cisterns. I though that this latter row of cubicles contained the girls urinals, and wondered why they had to hide away to wee when us boys used the urinal in the open.

Anon

I used to believe that whenever I used the toilet and flushed it, all my waste was eaten by the toilet. I thought that most toilets favored poop.

tiger

When I was 3 or 4, I thought that everything that was flushed down the toilet was stored in the rectangular tank behind the seat. I used to wonder how they fit all that stuff in there, especially in public restrooms... the pipes by the handle were so small!

Chad

I used to believe that if I wasn't at home, I wasn't allowed to go to the toilet unless someone offered, as my mum had told me not to take something at someone's house unless they offered it to you. Consequently, whenever i was at a friend's house, I had "accidents" a lot. Fortunately I grew out of this at 7

wet girl (UK)

I believed that toilets were permenately in the ground, so naturally when my father removed our old toilet(to put in a new on) I thought he had to be the strongest man in the world (or out of this world?!)

Anon