When you go up in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back down to that floor.
When you go down in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back up to that floor.
A childhood belief about technology

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 I would be paralysed if I sat on the floor for more than 20 minutes— bittergrass
- That if you hit the floor from a really big hieght in you dreams you die— Danielle
- When I was little, I used to believe I could fly from my bed but I didn"t ....I fell on the floor!Anon
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon