I thought the carpet cleaner on the vacuum was a "special pump". That's why it made that noise. At least that's what my dad told me.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I believed you ran the vacuum to cut the carpet and used the lawn mower to smooth out the grass.— Michelle
- i used to think that vacuum cleaners had little piece of space inside them because space is a vacuumAnon
- I used to use the basketball pump in the air because I thought I was donating fresh air to the needy.— Emily
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi
- I thought when the Big Bang happened it made an actual bang noise— Catte