When I was little, my dad told me that when the mall closed at night, zombies came out and ate all the people who were locked inside. It backfired, though, one night when we were still at the mall at closing time and I started freaking out.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that The Mall Of America was in Canada. — Adam
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- I used to think that a strip mall was where you shop naked.— WD
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- my mum told me that the 'public' park was closing so she could go home— xx-lotty-pop-xx