When I was about 5 my aunt caught me pushing all the buttons in the elevator at the mall. So she told me that a gremlin lived underneath the elevators, he made them go up and down by pulling ropes, and pushing all the buttons at once would piss him off. So until I was about 10 I took the escalator.
A childhood belief about going shopping

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.Anon
- I used to believe my dad could honk the car horn by pushing on a mysterious spot on the roof of the car.— sarah b
- I had an uncle that told me that we had belly buttons for putting salt in while we ate celery in bed.— ainmama2001
- i uses to believe that boys wee'd out of their belly buttons.— boys and toilets
- I used to believe that babies came out of belly buttons — kels
- that bunnies came out of belly buttonsAnon