When I was little my gee-gee, in order to make sure we held onto the hand-rails, told us the story of a little boy who got his tennis shoe caught in the grid at the bottom of the escalator and was sucked under and ground up. For years my parents had to walk miles in malls and airports to find elevators because I would become hysterical near escalators..
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- My teacher held out a hand to say, "stop" but I thought she wanted a high-five.Anon
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- i used to believe escalators would eat me.Anon
- I thought strip malls were just that, stripper clubs.— Neo
- I use to think elevators were alligators & cantalope was antelopes.Anon