When I was little, my old babysitter scared me into always rewinding videotapes by telling me the VCR would explode if the tape went all the way to the end. I believed it! To this day, out of habit, I still make sure to stop the tape and rewind.
A childhood belief about tv
others believed things like this
- I believed that linguini was made of tape worms and was scared to eat pasta for a long time!— Mojo!
- I thought the “rec” button on tape recorders said wreck and it would wreck your tape if you pushed it!— Alberto Richardson
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that a person could fix ANYTHING with Scotch tape.— Felix
- I used to put a camera along my fireplace on Christmas Eve in hopes to tape Santa.Anon
- My partner thought women used the brown packing tape as wax strips.— Helen