My dad convinced me, when I was a little kid, that if you turned the volume up to full on any sound system it would explode. A belief I carried into my late teens.
A childhood belief about radio

others believed things like this
- i used to think that it you kept the volume off on the teleivision set. it would explode.— kath
- I used to believe that when you turned up the volume on the T.V the people had to shout louder.— Tanana
- I used to believe that I invented the X Y coordinate system.Anon
- I used to believe GPS stood for Ginormous Processing System. — Babre
- i use to believe....that cement trucks carried balloons to the Bozo circus....lol— Laura
- when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that— sparrow