I honestly thought that every time I used the vacuum cleaner, it was going to blow up and kill me. I loathed having to do that particular chore, and I'd always try to do it as quickly as possible so as to not get blown up by the exploding vacuum cleaner. I think I just hated the noise it made.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- when I was little i was scared of vacuum cleaners. I thought they would suck me inside of them.— Julie
- When I was 5 I was terrible scared of vacuum cleaners, because I thought it can suck me.— ahhhhhhhhh
- When I was younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- I used to think that "elbow grease" was an actual product of kitchen or surface cleaner.— Carrie