When i was young (in fact up until i was about 22 when i actually had the guts to try it out) my mum used to say tht if you didn't step off escalators in time it would suck you under the moving stars forever. Even now when i look at escalators i intentially stand on unitl i hit the edge - just because i can!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- i used to believe escalators would eat me.Anon
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon
- I used to wonder that if man wanted to reach the stars in rockets, why didn't he just go up at night? Duh!!!— albinoavenger