There was a cartoon on "Sesame Street" about a bellhop who had to carry 8 steamer trunks down 8 flights of stairs. I've seen this 'toon enough times on YouTube to know that I misinterpreted it badly as a kid, and as a result I used to be scared of it. I used to believe that as he was carrying the trunks (which I mistook for just being mere suitcases), he was falling down the stairs only to a certain floor (the 6th, maybe), and that there was an elevator next to the stairs on that floor that he tried using, only to find out that the elevator didn't work and he fell down the shaft, floor by floor (with each floor labeled a different number.) There was really no elevator and no elevator shaft he fell down, but somehow I didn't think this as a kid.
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I used to believe I could fly from my bed but I didn"t ....I fell on the floor!Anon
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- I thought Aerosmith's 'Love in an Elevator' was 'Loving a man like Victor'.— Tracy Miller
- I used to believe I could fly when I was about four, until I fell down the stairs.— Sarah
- I used to believe that I would be paralysed if I sat on the floor for more than 20 minutes— bittergrass
- That if you hit the floor from a really big hieght in you dreams you die— Danielle