I used to think that if I didn't jump over the crack at the top and bottom of the escalator, it would suck me under.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump the white lines of the zebra crossing I would dieAnon
- I used to believe that your bottom teeth were actually in your bottom— jez
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake