I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.
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 u pee in the bath, you will get sucked down the plughole!Anon
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- I used to believe that if you didn't close the toilet lid after flushing, you would get sucked down into it.— Maya
- I used to belive that if I didn't duck when going under bridges they would hit me.Anon
- i usedto belive that if you ate a paperclip you would be like the man of steel. um....... it didn`t go well.— rachel a.k.a. SUPERGIRL