When I was age 7 I used to jump up and look inside my neighbours top-loading washing machine until she told me that if I put my hand in there sharp blades would come from out and cut my hands off.
I was 17 before I could ever go near one.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that if I put my arm in the washing machine while it was going that it would rip off.— Hannah
- I used to think that when it rained,it meant God was washing his hands Anon
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- I used to think that the shoulder blades were actually "back breasts".— Kdees