When I was in preschool, I once asked a teacher who was vacumning the carpet whether or not a small child like me could be sucked up by the vacumn machine. She, having either misheard me or having thought it was a stupid question, responded with a "yes."
For the next year or two, I would always leave the room when any vacumn was being used.
A childhood belief about teachers

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- I once asked my dad why Pugs had flat faces. He responded "because they ran into a wall"...— Kristy
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- Anytime you had a question (any question at all) you just called the president.— Erin
- As a child I used think if I jumped too high on a trampoline I'd be sucked up into outer space.— Jenn