Things eating me from the loo
I had a book of short stories when i was a kid. The last one in the book was a story about a babysitter and a child who was a bit of a pain. The babysitter took him around the park and places like that scaring him. One of the things she said to scare him was 'if you aren't out of the bathroom by the time the flush has stopped then a big monster will come out of the toilet and try to eat you'.

From that second on i had to run out of the toilet before the flush finished, wait for it to end then go back and wash my hands.

This was made worse by watching the film 'Ghoulies' (or something similar) where some one was actually eaten from something that came out of the toilet.

It is only since i moved away (at 21) that i found i could bear to be in the bathroom while the toilet was flushing. I am slightly more normal now :)
(The Ginger Penguin la la la la la la, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 12:58, 3 replies)

I read that header as
'Eating things from the loo'.

My six year old is scared of being in the bathroom when the toilet is flushing, but I've never read her anything scary.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 13:02, closed)

I know what you mean!
Sometimes (though only when in the house on my own) I get 'The Fear' when sat on the bog, and have to get up and hover over the seat to finish what I'm doing.

I'm afraid of a black hole coming up the pipe and sucking me down the loo.

Strange, I know.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 13:07, closed)

hahah yes!
My mother confessed to having a fear of flushing loos for years and years, because her father told her that if you flush the loo whilst sitting on it, the loo-hippo will come up the u-bend and bite your bum.

Strange chap, my grandfather. Wish I'd known him! (He died when my mother was 11 or 12).
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Mon 14 Apr 2008, 13:24, closed)