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My toilet when I was little was the kind with one big hole and one small one. I used to think that the big one was for poo and the small one was for pee.

Joanna

When we was younger me and my brother always got moaned at for not pulling the chain. When my brother was about 14/15 the area we were living in had bad weather and we had a powecut. My brother went to bathroom, did his thing came out and came back dowon stairs. " I didn't hear the chain go" my mum said, my brother replied with "It won't work duh" My mum looked puzzled "well the powers off". He thought that the chain ran of electricity! Me and mum still annoy him with it.

Anon

i was in the toilets in the shopping centre the other day, when a mother and two lttle kids came in, and went into the stall. Obviously one kid had done his business and had gone to flush, and the mother had asked him to wait till his sister had done her business before he flushed. The kid asked why, and the mother replied, "because every time you flush the toilet, a fishie dies, and every time you use too much toilet paper a tree dies." I was somewhat traumatised, sitting in the next cubicle!!

Dot

i believed that if you sat on the toilet to long a monster would jump out and eat you, this came as a shock to my mum when i ran out of the bathroom tryin to pull my trousers up shouting 'it's goin to eat me, ah.'

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When I was young, I used to believe that the only toilet made for pooing was the one in my own house. I was so afraid to poo anywhere else, so I would hold it in until I go home for that reason only.

Angela

We had friends over one day and we could hear the toilet running. My husband asked our 7 year old daughter to go "jiggle the toilet". After a few minutes, my daughter hadn't returned so I went to see where she was. When I walked into the bathroom, my daughter was bent over the toliet, kind of hugging it and shaking. When I asked her what she was doing she said, "Daddy told me to jiggle the toilet."

Michelle

Until I was six or so I thought you were only supposed to use one square of toilet paper per time at the toilet. I would tear it off really carefully and sometimes separate the layers, to give me more surface area to wipe with. This worked only marginally well for piss, but for poop, it was almost impossible to wipe everything off! I must have been a stinky little child...

carol

WHEN I WAS LITTLE I USED TO BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU SAT ON THE TOILET A MAN WOULD SPY UP YOUR BUM TO SEE IF YOU HAD ANY INFECTIONS OR ANYTHING.... OK I WAS ONLY 4 OR 5!

AHHHHHH!

Sarilly when someone stuck your head is a toilet. I used to believe that a Sarilly was an candy and i asked all of my frineds if they can give me a sarilly

Trent

I used to believe (age 4 or 5) that you had to water the tile of the bathroom floor, like my mom watered the garden. I never really watered the floor but I would pretend :S

"Mommy, the floor tiles are dying!"

When I was young, my mother explained to me that the water that you flushed down the toilet would end up in the ocean or a river. So, I started to think that when you flushed the toilet, the pee and poo floated down the pipes and out into a large body of water. (This is especially sad when you know that my father works in waste water treatment!)

Maeghan Jade

One day, when I was about four or five, my aunt came to visit and after a while excused herself and said the was going to "the lavatory". I'd never heard it called that before, so immediately I put my shoes on and asked if I could go with her -I'd never been there before! *groan* I'm almost 22 now and it's still brought up at every family gathering...

Hayz