When I was little I would not go on the escalator as I thought if I did not get off on time, I would be taken underneath. Walked a lot of stairs in those days.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- When I was a kid, I thought you could get arrested if you accidently walked into the wrong restroomAnon
- I used to believe I could fly when I was about four, until I fell down the stairs.— Sarah
- I used to believe that there were red and black spiders underneath the table in the toilet.— Phil