Mistaken identity. Is this horror?!

The land at my new place, right next to it, there was a gentle slope and a proper walkway-like path. There was a handrail in the middle, and it was a gentle slope. And at the top of the slope, there was a solitary statue, seemingly carved by an old man and woman. Probably, it was placed there like, 'This is a path for the elderly!', not in a scary way. Until just now, I had mistaken it for stone steps at a shrine, with a handrail in the middle, and the statue being a Jizo statue! What was I looking at, where was I!? Was I tripping!? That was a close call. 'I won't use it on rainy days!' (The stairs with narrow steps, slippery when wet. I feel like I'll fall.) I said that. But it seems others felt I was saying I wouldn't use the slope on rainy days. That path that looked like a shrine approach, the stone stairs? It was stairs with narrow steps?? Weren't they? Jizo statues!? I'm in total confusion.