My mom would always tell me to "jump" when we got to the bottom of escalators so that i wouldn't trip when i transferred myself from the moving stairs to the solid ground. This led me to think that if you didn't jump at the end of the escalator, you would get SUCKED into the stairs, and become part of the escalator.
how horrifying!! haha.
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 used to believe that if I didn't jump the white lines of the zebra crossing I would dieAnon
- I used to believe I could fly when I was about four, until I fell down the stairs.— Sarah
- I used to think you could die if you jumped half way down the stairs. Anon
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee