I used to believe that eveyone died in alphabetical order, especially after i would read the newspaper obituary collumn. Hence I always wished I could be called Mr Zebedee! I'm a funeral director now, so I pretty much realise this isn't true!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to wonder when reading the obituary column how people always managed to die in alphabetical order.— diane
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- I used to believe the show Law and Order was a gardening show called Lawn and Order.— Adriana
- When I was a child I used to believe that people died in order of age.— Silvia Spinetti
- My mom used to think "preschool" was called "pretty school" until a few years later.— Molly