What was your most irrational fear as a child?

[aephi alum]

"Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent - I don't care which one - but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!"

-- Mallrats

Add me to the list of people who were afraid of escalators as a little kid. I was convinced that the teeth at the end of the escalator would eat me. After all, they were eating the steps, weren't they? So I would jump over the teeth rather than stepping off like a normal person.