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Ok this is stupid but...
you know the public toilets where you have to put like 20p to get in.
Well I have never been in one and would never go in one as I believed when I was younger that you go to toilet and after uve finished the door opens and you have like a certain amount of time to leave before the door closes and washes the whole toilet throughout, if you dont get out in time, you get a pretty hard shower.
yuck
scaryyyy

Candy

I use to always flush spiders and thing like that down the toilet. But I was afraid to go to the bathroom and sit on the toilet cause i thought they would crawl back up and bite my butt!!

Sam

I am scared to death by sharks and i used to think that a shark would come out of the toilet to KILL me. Luckly i grew out of that before middle school.

...do i really have to tell?

i used to believe that if i didn't get out of the bathroom by the time the toilet was done flushing then a big spooky green hand would reach out of the toilet and eat me all up. gobble gobble. No wonder my hands were always dirty. ;)

Amanda

Until I was in third grade, I was afraid to flush toilets. My mom says our toilet (when I was about 2) almost overflowed, so she picked me up and said "Uh-oh!" Since then, I was always afraid the toilet would overflow, and that something really bad would happen then.. though I wasn't sure what. Maybe I was just afraid to get it on my feet. In any case, for years I ran from the bathroom as soon as I'd flushed.

Michelle

I used to have a fear that if I didn't get out of the bathroom after it flushes , I'd get sucked down a black hole in the bathroom floor.

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When I was little and easily scared, I thought there was a mummy that lived in my toilet and if I sat there to long he would come up and grab me. I would quickly look at the toilet bowl right after I was done and I was almost possitive I could see his hand.

KT

I use to Believe that when u went to the bathroom and you would sit on the toilet that there was a BIG green globe with huge red teeth that would bite of your rear end so every time i had to use the bathroom i would go as fast as i could and dart out of there (turns out my brother was jus being mean since he is 13 years older than me)

Elayna

When I was little my mom always told me not to sit on the toilet seat in a public restroom. She said that pigs go to the bathroom in here and that is wasn't clean. For the longest time I couldn't go to the bathroom in a public place because pigs went there.

Amanda

when I was little I was scared of the noise that the toilets made. I thought that they would suck me in &I'd get stuck. Befor I flushed I would unlock my stall door & get as far away from the toilet as I could while still flushing it. Then I would run out of the stall at full speed, offten almost hitting other visters to the restroom. To this day I still unlock the door befor I flush - even if it is kinda silly

monica

If i was drinking out of the toilet, i could have been killed!

Slinx

I saw "Beetlejuice" for the first time when I was 4. I remember this one part where Beetlejuice comes out of the bathroom as this snake thing. I always assumed it was from the toilet, so for the longest time I couldn't go to the bathroom without freaking out about Beetlejuice being in my toilet.

Megh

When I was young, in the early sixties, I used to believe that snakes lived in the outhouse at my aunt's house. I even had the heebie jeebies if I thought about it while sitting on a flush toilet since I had lived in Florida when I was 6-8 and had heard the alligator in the sewer stories. I never could quite convince myself they weren't true.

Kitty

i used to think that if i didnt flush right away ghosts would come up out of the toilet and chase me through the house. so i runed out of the bathroom as fast as i could.

Ummmmmm

When I was a small boy, I used to believe there were spiders in the toilets.

nicolas, a French student in 8th grade

When I was little, I asked my older sister what the flushing of the toilet was. She didn't give me a direct answer, but she told me never to be sitting on the toilet or have the lid open when you flush it. I became convinced that it was some sort of monster that would try to eat me, and then (I don't know how this part got into my head) I became convinced that if I made it past the toilet, the monster would come out of the bathroom closet. So I would do my stuff, close the lid, wash my hands, then flush the toilet and bolt for the door, making sure the closet door was closed.

It made me quicker in the bathroom.

Matatuana

My mom used to tell me that if I didn't flush the toilet and feed the toilet monster that he would come and eat me in my sleep. So whenever I flushed the toilet I would jump behind the door to make sure he didnt eat me too.

Krystal

i beleived that once the tiolet was a big dinosaur and if i sat on it, it would eat my bum and send me to jail

Anon

My friend Clarissa once told me that when she was little, she would always run out of the bathroom really quik as soon as she flushed the toilet because she was afraid that the people who lived in the toilet would pull her down with them and she'd be trapped in the toilet forever...

Lyssa

i used to be afraid to drink water from water fountains that were anywhere near a toilet because i thought that the toilet water/urine was somehow "cleaned" and recycled through the drinking fountain.

SETH