When we were kids, my sister Sarah and I used to go to this office building on Main Street and ride the elevator up and down. Sarah told me that if I didn't bend my knees in the elevator, when it reached a floor the stopping motion would shatter my kneecaps. To this day I still bend my knees in elevators!
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I used to believe that kidneys were located in your knees.Anon
- when i was younger i thought ac/dc's dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), was dirty knees and the thunder cheeks.— S
- That if you didn't have your seat belt buckled up when the car was in motion, it would crash.— Dave Smith
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M