I used to believe that if I went on the escalators I would get sucked into the vents at the bottom. So I had to be carried on them or would find a way to avoid them all together and walk down the stairs.
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 sharks lived under the pools where the air vents were. — Carol
- I used to think that the music from a car radio came out of the heater/air vents in the dashboard.— Joe
- I used to think the song "Walk this way" by Arosmith went horse and sleigh insted of singing walk this way.— Derek
- I used to believe you could walk on clouds. And you would be able to walk in space on the edge of the world.— Alex
- I used to believe that your bottom teeth were actually in your bottom— jez