If I was too late in jumping off an escalator I would be pulled underneath and ground into bits. My mum had to pick me up as we got near the end, as I got increasingly hysterical.
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 you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I used to think that you could get arrested for having a packet of Rizla's that had bits torn off the top...— Patch
- I used to think that if you ate the black bits on chips you would instantly die of cancer.— jayne
- I used to think raisons were bits of old people and after my granny died I never at them again— rraisonhaterrt