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My principal at our Elementary School used to say to us not to play around in the bathroom, so of course that made us play around more like this one girl showed her buttcrack and I think I janitor was in there and she reported the incident to the principal so the next day he announced he had just installed camera's in the bathrooms and he made a special request to someone not to show their buttcrack again and so everyday the girl would come in the restroom with a very small umbrella and sit it over her stall, do her buisness and come out. Very stupid. We all thought he was watching us from the camera so we would all bring umbrellas from then on until he announced he has had complaints from parents about the camera thing so he said there never were any but we were still afraid there were so we still carried umbrella's just in case.

Anon

I was believed (whole heartedy, without a doubt) that when you flushed the toilet a genie would come out. Not knowing if it was a nice genie or a mean genie, I took no chances. I flushed and RAN.

Cherin-Michele

My step brother told me about the toilette monkeys and that they would come up out of the toilette and tickle your butt. I never wanted to sit on the toilette so I used to try standing up.

Megan

I wouldn't flush the chain until I was about seven and this would really annoy my parents. But I couldn't tell them it was because the sound of the flush was the sign for the monsters who lived behind the water tank on the landing that I was alone upstairs and they could come out and grab me and I would have to live in the world that existed behind the airing cupboard.

Anon

The first nightmare I ever had was when I was about 4. I dreamed that I had cut a hole in the toilet, + all the waste products from the sewers came rushing out + flooded the house, but I managed to solve this problem by feeding it mints + generally being freindly to it.
For many years after this, I believed I had to befreind each toilet I used, otherwise it might overflow. This involved saying 'hello, how are you? Would you like a drink?' before using a public toilet, + I was conviced that some of them replied. (don't ask).
though this did take quite a while, + I would only use public toilets that I'd used before, in case the ones next to it thought I'd gone off them + made freinds with someone else. that would make them very upset, + they'd overflow.
This went on until I was about 9 or 10.

Nin

When I was about 8, my mum's friend told me about a guy who had a pet python. She said that it went down his toilet and came out in the person's toilet next door. For ages I thought that a snake would come out of our toilet so I used to get my older sister to come with me whenever I went to the toilet!

Emma

When I was 5 or 6 my best friend convinced me that the devil lived in the sewer and if you weren't fast enough when you used the toilet he'd come up and poke your butt with a sword.

Xan

When I was very young, I was absolutely terrified of being locked in a public toilet. I thought I would be in there forever. I decided that if it ever happened to me, I would just crawl out under the door. The trouble is that many toilet doors go all the way to the bottom, so if I was ever in one of those, I wouldn't lock the door at all but just try and hold it shut with my foot, while I.....went as fast as I could. I'm 22 now and grew out of it years ago but I must admit if I'm in a toilet and can see plenty of space under the door, it still makes me feel relieved.

Miranda

Whenever I was about 4 or 5, my pet goldfish died and my older friend who was about 14 told me if I flushed him down the toilet, he would come back and bite me in the ass someday..literally. Let me tell you, I always hovered above the toilet for about a year afterwards.

Anon

When I was in Kindergarten I never ever went to the bathroom. For some reason I thought that the door to the bathroom would open up to some huge place where everyone in the world needed to go to the bathroom. Needless to say I was very afraid that would get lost or run over or something!

Imagine my surprise when I couldn't hold it anymore one day and all that was there was a little room with 1 toilet!

Anon

When I was little I saw "looks who's talking" and there was a scene where the toilet turned evil and looked at the little boy and said "give me your peepee" that was around the time I was potty trained and i believed thats what toilets did. it scared the crap out of me so bad that my parents had to put the baby potty in the kitchen.

beanie

I remember my mom used to flush spiders or other bugs that she killed down the toilet. I always avoided using the toilet she put the bug down for a while because I thought that the dead bug mysteriously floated back up and would bite your butt!

anon

I grew up in the city. I was never afraid of the boogeyman in the woods. Instead, I was afraid of kidnappers.
In kindergarten, it was a long walk down a generally deserted hallway to the bathroom. I believed that if I flushed the toilet, the kidnapper would know what stall I was in. As a result, I never flushed when I peed at school.
I now believe that it's really inconsiderate to not flush a public toilet after using it. I'm glad I've learned something in the last 25 years.

Phoebos

i belived that if i flushed the toilet with the seat up and gaint monster would come out and start smashing things

Anon

When i was younger, and still sometimes now.
i thought that monsters would come when you finished going to the toilet, like after you flushed.
so id run,

chelsea

My sister used to be afraid to go to the bathroom because she thought that leprachauns were going to come out of the toilet and take over the world.

Anon

I overheard a friend of my grandmothers talking about her hemorrhoids and how horrible and painful they were. Later I asked my grandmother what hemorrhoids were and she said “they happen when you spend too much time on the potty”. For a good three years I was afraid of the toilet.

Anon

When I was little I believed that if I was near a toilet when it flushed I would be flushed too. I spent most of elementary school running out of the bathroom after flushing.

Natalie

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.

eL

I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.

Oz