When I was about three years old, the elevator Mother and I were riding in somehow skipped the ground floor and we went all the way to the basement. It was dark and spooky and there was a garbage incinerator in it. Men were feeding broken cardboard boxes and other trash into it and the fire was very high. I thought we had accidentally gone all the way down to Hell. I had nightmares about elevators for years.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I used to believe that grown-ups got scared because they were so high off the ground.— Sammy