I believed that you could get sucked into the gap at the end of the escalator, the moving stairs disappear into the floor. I was terrified of going on the escalator and would walk backwards on it until I worked up the guts to take a running jump over it. These days I sometimes let my feet slide off the escalator onto the ground just to prove to myself that I can't fit through the gap even if I try.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- 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 off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I believed I could tap dance by moving my feet real fast. — Aussie
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu
- When I was about 4 and I saw the clouds moving sideways, I thought that Earth was moving closer to the Sun— Helen