It's true, I have serious emotional problems with Vaccum cleaners. It started back when I was a kid, when my older brothers chased me with that horrid machine. Then something bad always happens when I try to get over it.
Like back in high school, when I moved into a new house. I got a new room with new carpet, and we had a new vaccum cleaner. So I decided I'd have a go at cleaning the carpet for the first time. Befor then I lived in Indonesia...without carpeting...so I never had to worry about vaccuming.
I didn't know the vaccum cleaner was "Self-propelled"....I didn't even know there was such a thing as a self-propelled vaccum cleaner.
So It starts out just fine. The loud noise was typical, but there seemed to be a tugging from the vaccum cleaner. I assumed it was just the way it worked. But then I noticed it increased...as if something was pulling on it...it was trying to escape my grasp. This was alarming, so I let it go....and it moved....on its own! eek
Five minutes after I started i was screaming for my MOm, shaking and close to tears, convinced that the vaccum cleaner was posessed.
After a few years, my parents got hardwood flooring........and I'm never asked to vaccum.