When I was a kid I watched this vacuum commercial where there was a tornado, and this lady got her vacuum cleaner and sucked up the tornado. So when I was little I used to ask my parents "Why don't they just suck the tornado up with a vacuum cleaner?"
A childhood belief about adverts

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 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
- When i was little i used to believe that i could suck up a tornado in a vaccuum if it came in my house.Anon
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay