You can get sucked down the plughole

When me and my sister were kids, my dad used to sing us that song by Cream called "A Mother's Lament", and if you've heard it, you know it's a rather sad song, in a funny way, about a mother who turns her back on the tub for just a second so that she could get the soap, only to turn back around and find that her baby was so tiny, he was sucked down the plug.

Needless to say, we were afraid of going down the "pluggole".

Erin

When I was six, my friend told me that her aunt got her intestines sucked out by sitting on a bath tub drain while it was draining.

I thought of sitting on the drain to see if it was real; i chickened out.

Lola

I used to believe that if I let the water out of the tub while I was still in it that I would go down the drain with the water

Dan

I remember a song called splish splash by
Charlie Drake at the end he pulls out the plug
and is sucked down the plughole .my mum told
me that the same thing would happen to me if
I pulled the plug while I was still in the bath .it
terrified me I was only about 5 at the time
KENNY

Anon

When I was little I hated the noise of the water running down the plughole in the bath would suck me in.

Flick

I took the fear of getting sucked down the plughole to the extreme . . . My father convinced me that I would be sucked down the plughole when I was about 3 years old. Afterwards, I wouldn't sit down in the bathtub for a year . . . I was a very gullible child and my mother threatened to kill my father after the incident.

Anon

When I was like 2/3 my sister and I used to go into the bathroom while my mum was having a bath and sit and talk to her. I remember her telling us that if the plug was pulled out she would go down the plughole.
Well ofcourse she pulled out the plug and slowly slid deeper into the bath; my sister and I went hysterical screaming and trying to hold her up screaming we loved her and crying.
My mother used to stop when we were really upset, she said it was to test how much we loved her. I remember being really really upset, scared and traumatised thinking the plug-hole was going to take my mummy away.
I was always scared of the plug hole for a long while after that.

Shea

I used to belive a monster lived down the plughole in the bath and when you pulled the plug out he would grab you and drag you down the plughole and eat you so i'd jump out of the bath as quickly as possible or make someone else pull out the plug later....

MacKenzie

That if I stayed in the bath to long i turned into a prawn (not prune) and I'd fall through the plughole, mum & dad had to force meinto bath for months

Anon

I used to believe that if someone pulled the plug on the drain while I was in the bath, I would go down it. So everytime I was done taking a bath I would hop out really quickly. If my mother pulled the plug on the drain while I was in it, I would start crying and screaming for her to get me out. I really thought that my body would get sucked down that little hole just like the water, and I would be gone forever.

Sonia

My mom used to tell me I had to get out of the bath before pulling the plug otherwise I'd get sucked down the plughole. I believed this until I was 9 ...

JigsWithoutWoodstock

Being sucked down the bathtub... My Grandmother once told me when I was 4 or 5 that if I didn't finish all the food on my plate I would end up so thin I'd get sucked down the bathtub hole when someone pulled the plug. It didn't actually make me finish my food but I ended up being really scared of going down with the gurgling water at the end of my bath!

MoniMay

when i was younger my mum used to bath me i belived that if she took the plug out before i got out i would get sucked down the plug hole just like a tv show i watched !

Anon

I had a morbid fear of being sucked down the plug-hole and would climb out of the bath tub with great haste after taking out the plug.

Peter I Walker

My mom would have to take me out of the tub before ahe drained the water because i was convinsed that i would get sucked down the hole

nicki bird

When I was little, I was afraid of the bathroom drain, I thought it would suck me down the hole.

Anon

I used to believe that if I did'nt get out of the bath before the final trickles of water went down the plug hole, I would go down the plug whole too!! Actually the thought still lurks in the back of my mind every so often and Im 35!!!

budge

When I was little, I was scared of drain holes in the bath-tub. I thought I would get sucked down them and die.

vivin

i used to believe that in the hole in bath lives monster who suckes out water out of it. I was afraid that this creature can suck out also me or catch my foot.

salmon

Having seen Laurel and Hardy go down the plughole in the bath with the water I always had to jump out of the bath before plulling the plug out in case I suffered the same fate.

GW