My mom always told me that if you stand too close to the microwave you will go blind...i think it was just so I would leave the kitchen and get out of her way!
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I was told that if you went to brd with your sox on you would go blind.— Frank L
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I used to believe that you could get cancer from looking in the microwave while it was running.— Kayla
- When I was little I thought the microwave was the Michaelwave because my name is Michael.— Michael
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon