Then there's potty training. My older brothers thought it hilarious to tell me about the alligators in the sewers. According to them, little girls are pulled down the toilet almost daily because they have to sit and can't see the 'gator coming. Boys stand and can see and run. My mother was convinced I needed psychiatric help because I insisted on standing like the boys. To this day, I look before I sit. And was completely traumatized by an episode of the X-Files in which the fluke man hid in an outhouse.