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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.'

in p11 1st lesson

I used to think that the floty ball inside the toilet was something for kids to play with.;o) hehe!

christine

When i was little (like 3 or 4) my big sister (by three years) told me that there was a "potty monster" and when you went number 2 it would come and eat you ass.....only for like a day though cause my mom told me it wasnt true....

You wish you were me!

I used to belive that little people actually lived in the place where the water of the toilet fills up. When someone went to the bathroom and pulled the lever, I imagined that the fisiological needs were sent to the place were the water filled up, and then, the little men would eat what someone had done in the toilet.

gabriel

When my grandson was about 3 he used to believe if he threw up in the toilet he would get rid of his bad attitude.

Gamma

Aged nine, I saw a comedy show on the TV which included a song, during which the singer sang "I'm going to sit on a quango". This line was accompanied by a picture of a toilet. As a result, for over a year I believed 'quango' was a slang word for a toilet.

Jess Cully

When i was little i used to think that your hair became brown if you didn't wash your hands properly after you had been to the toilet.

Anon

Every time we were out I'd get desperate for a wee. I thought Mum was really mean 'cause I'd see signs everywhere and she'd never let me go. Turns out they were To Let signs!

Izzy

When I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night as a kid, I used to beleive if I flushed when the light wasn't on the toilet would over-flow and I'd drown!

Kim

When I was younger i believed that if you diddn't flush the toilet and close the lid then all the stuff in the toilet would then either go on your hands when you washed them or onto your toothbrush when you cleaned your teeth! My older sister had told me about it for a joke as i always used to forget to flush the toilet.

Anon

when i was a year old i taught my self how to use the poddy by using the kitty litter box, my parents were hippies and were proud of me for conserving water and didnt correct me till i was 8 years old.

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when i was little i used to believe that little monsters lived in the toilet and when i was peeing and pooping that was me feeding them .

Anon

After flushing the toilet I would have to run into the next room before it finished flushing.
I was a strange child.

Anon

In my house i have only one toilet and whenever i really needed to go my older brother would be there before me doing a poo, he would take so long that i kept on thinking he was just finished but stuck in the hole and couldn't come out. Boy did i have accidents....

Anon

When i was young i observed that a squre of toilet paper is bigger than the hole it flushes down i dident no that the paper cured up wen it went down so i assumed it was magic one day i thot if 1 peice of paper can go down maybe more can i then tried to flush a full not unravveled roll of paper down for many years my mum dident no y 1 day there was a toilet paper roll floating in the bowl!

keir

When I was little my dog would allways drink out of the toilet. I couldnt understand what a toilet was so I just thought it was like a drinking fountain. and sometimes I went in there and drank the water.

sammie

I used to believe that when you went to the toilet, that there was this town that lived in the toilet who ordered foos. So if you went poo, then they'd me ordering a hamburger, if you went pee, it was sprite and if you had diarrhea it was dessert. And tha the toilet paper was the list of food they wanted. Then when you flushed it, the noise that the toilet makes was them saying Thank you.

Lenny

I was told that snakes travelled around in the plumbing and occasionally emerged from the toilet, and sometimes an unfortunate person would be sitting down there at the time.

As a child, I figured three things: One, that this was a ploy to stop me spending so much time in the bathroom; two, that it was hard luck for the snake to have to swim through all that mess, so who could blame it; and three, that it was obviously untrue, because how could a snake breathe underwater?

It was with mixed feelings some years later when I found out that this actually does happen.

Yubi

My Dad once told me that the toilet at the state Renaissance Festival was just one large cauldron that everyone had to use at once. I never went to the bathroom there until I was at least ten, and discovered they actually had private stalls.

Getka

I used to believe that the signs which said 'To let' were signs for toilets that had been mis-spelt!

Lisa