When I was little and went to department stores, I always would jump off the escalators at the end because I thought they'd suck my toes under when it got to the end. To this day I still get nervous about escalators because of that childhood fear!
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- i used to believe escalators would eat me.Anon
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- I thought the lyrics to "Don't fear the reaper" were "Don't fear the reefer"— who new?
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- I thought drug stores sold drugs. I never understood how they could sell illegal drugs.— Diana Rios