My sister told me when I was about four, that IF I ran over the vacuum cord while vacuuming I would be instantly electrocuted. I was PETRIFIED of the vacuum. The really sad part was that I didn't figure out the real truth until I was about 20!
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 younger, I would believe that vacuum cleaners were capable of sucking up humans.Anon
- 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
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki