Were you afraid to flush the toilet as a child?

No but my daughter would flush and then run from the bathroom as fast as she could. It was hilarious.

nope
"wave goodbye to the poopies..."

No, but my sister was.

If I was, it was so long ago I don't remember.

No, but my son was between 3-5 starting from the time we were in a ghost town and were buzzed by a supersonic jet.
From the age of three I was always fond of designing toilets and bathrooms. I've made them both as vintage (1892) stage props and modern art (aged urinal wall & floor with urinal removed). I want to create gargoyle motif toilets and international-solidarity internet-wall garden-park-gazebo sanctuary inspirational travellars unisex restrooms.

no

No, the toilet was one of my imaginary friends when I was little ("Toiletty"). I used to sit and talk to it for ages. And you know what? He used to answer..........

That sounds like the toilet in one of the Harry Potter books.

There was a toilet featured in one of the HP books? I remember Moaning Myrtle's toilets........

That's it! Didn't Moaning Myrtle live in the toilet?

I liked to watch the water swirling around in the toilet bowl as a child.The thrill is gone now tho.

Not at all.

No. If anything, I would have been afraid NOT to flush the toilet. My parents were kind of strict, if they saw someone hadn't flushed, there would probably be a lecture.

Yes, when I was little, especially the stall ones where I was trapped inside the door with the toilet when I flushed it, and it was one of those really powerful, noisy ones with enough suction to pull me down with it. Very scary.

Uh-huh Got to love those books!

Lovely....... My little brother used to be fascinated by his. He used to look at them until he'd worked out what they resembled ("that one looks like a whale......")

lol
Ok, that's nasty. You've got to give kids some positive reinforcement though and if it means waving goodbye or naming their formations, then so be it.

He's grown out of it now! And I'm sure you don't still wave bye-bye??

not for a long time

Glad to hear it

Speaking of books, I looked for Bigglesworth books at the library yesterday, and they didn't have any books by W. E. Johns. Are those books rare and difficult to find? Either that, or maybe they never were popular in the US. Or maybe my library just doesn't have any books that old. I'll have to check at the used book store. If I strike out there, I'll ask my sweetie's mother from England if she can find one for me.

I don't think there were any published in America. I only know of one or two fans from America - most Biggles fans are from England, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

Even here you don't find many in the libraries. They were banned by libraries at one point and burned/destroyed. Silly librarians.....

No. But I was afraid to use toalet because I saw a movie with a big snake coming out of it.

Oh dear. It may be a challenge for me to find out first hand what the sensation is all about, but I'm determined to get ahold of at least one copy (unless it costs a small fortune). Burning books is really a sad thing. What a waste. I'd never agree to banning a book, even if I thought the content was really disgusting. Geez, if I think it's horrible, I don't have to read it!

I was afraid I would go down the drain too, and the noise scared me, maybe because it seems a lot louder when you are closer to it.

You can often buy cheap paperbacks on ebay. Often they aren't the best ones though.

Don't be embarrassed! Who are you?

Oh, yeah, ebay is a good idea! Thanks!

BAD SURVEY!!!

Where's the "Other" option?
Where's the option for "Yes, from a very young child (under 6) through to later childhood (around 12)"?

Tut, tut, tut...

Anyways, I was always so scared to flush the loo at night when I was staying over at someone's house! At my home, if you need to go loo in the middle of the night, you go, and flush. But as a child I remember flushing the loo at a friends house, and I got told off in the morning for waking people up!

What if someone badly needed to do a c**p??
Leave it for the first lucky person in the morning??

"SURPRISE"!!!!!

LOL I hate that kind of surprise!

Phew!!