You can get sucked down the plughole

I used to think that if you went too near, you would get sucked down the plughole in the bath and come out of the tap somewhere else. Whenever the bath was draining I stayed well back!

A great method of transport

When I was very young, my father used to sing me a little song while he bathed me. It went "my baby has gone down the plughole, my baby has gone down the drain. My baby has gone down the plughole, I'll never see baby again!" he used to sing it in a very sad voice. I believed that if I didn't cling on to the side of the bath I would go down the plughole and have to live with all the other babies who'd suffered the same fate. I was too small to hold on to the bath and I used to scream and scream at the mention of having a bath not because I didn't want to live in the drain's with the other babies but because I didn't want to make my father sad!

Anon

I must have only been about 3 or 4 but there was a song that my mum used to sing to me about a baby that went down a plughole because it was really thin. Well...people in my family always used to comment on how thin they thought i was so whenever my mum or dad used to put me in the bath, I was terified that I would get sucked down too. As soon as they pulled out the plug and I heard that sucking noise it makes, I would get hysterical because no-one could pull me out quick enough. It still freaks me out to this day. lol

wappy !

I was always very afraid of being sucked down the plug hole after I'd finished having a bath.

Anon

My sister used to think that she would get sucked down the plughole when we pulled the plug out while she was still in the bath.

Anon

I used to believe that if you pulled the plughole while you were in the bath, you would get sucked into it!

The Young Actor - age: 11

i used 2 believe that if i stayed in the bath long enogh i would get sucked down the plughole

dude

when i was little my mother used to tell me if i didnt get out of the bath i would be sucked down the plughole!

nikki

When very small I used to love baths so much that I'd never want to get out. This annoyed my parents so they invented a monster called Tommy Splodger who lived down the plughole and would come and eat me if I stayed in the bath too long. They told me the gurgling of the water going down the plughole was the noise Tommy made. I became very afraid of baths.

Ben