Urban LegendsI'm ashamed to admit it, but I fell for the "Bob Holness played the saxophone on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street" story some years back. It just seemed so right. I still want it to be true.
What have you fallen for, or even better, what legends have you started?
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chthonic, Thu 5 Jan 2006, 16:02)
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Bathroom Tap WaterWhen I was a kiddy my best friend informed me that drinking tap water from the bathroom would kill you. Unfounded as this claim was, I believed it without any doubt; from thereon in I just didn't drink bathroom tap water, it became second nature.
This all came crashing down at a friend's 17th birthday party (in a restaurant) when, as a dare, I ate a tablespoon of chilli-sauce. In a fit of mouth-searing agony I legged it to the bog and drank some serious amounts of water. It was then that I chose to acknowledge the "bathroom water will kill you" thing. So I sat, petrified beyond all reason that I was going to die in the very near future, in the restaurant's toilets. Weeping. I didn't want to die.
After 30 or so minutes I realised that I'd been following a bollocks rule for survival for nigh on 10 years and that I wasn't going to die after all. I felt really, really fucking stupid.
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Fictional Emma, Fri 6 Jan 2006, 13:55,
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