When I was little, we would take the bus downtown to the big department store. It had one of those old escalators that still had wooden slats to stand on. I used to worry that the escalator would eat me feet first and would refuse to go on it. I made my mom take the elevator.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- i used to believe escalators would eat me.Anon
- 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 think my feet were made of cheese!!: )— chatterbox
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- pizza hut made their pizzas in a tiny hut out back of the store
Anon