I use to believe that when you stuck your hand through a washing machine wringer, your entire body would go through and you'd end up flat as a pancake like the cartoon characters.
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 believe that if you bled to death your body would be flat.— -G
- i used to belive that if you smashed your hand in a roller your bones would be fine but your arm would be flat— rap masta cheseepuff
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen