When I was really little my mother told me the vacuum cleaner would suck my lungs out if I touched it, and I believed her. Vacuums STILL scare me, a source of great amusment as I'm now 19 and in college.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- 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
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- I used to believe that records were the power source for record players.— bob