My grandfather used to tell me that if you ever ran over the vacuum's electrical cord while vacuuming you'd get electrocuted and die. For the longest time when I was helping around the house I'd get nervous while vacuuming and thinking that if I let my attention slip for one second, I'd be dead. Eventually I reasoned that this was probably a minor concern back when vacuums first came out and that I had little to worry about but I still don't ever run over the cord.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- WHEN I WAS FIVE I THOUGHT DEAD PEOPLE
JUST GOT THRONE IN THE BIN AT THERE HOUSE.— JESSELEE GWYNNE (VICTORA) - My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha