I was five when my grandmother died. My mom told me she would be cremated. I asked what that meant. She told me they would put her in an oven until she was burned to dust. I was horrified by the image of how they would have to chop her up in order to fit her body into a kitchen oven.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to wonder why the oven didn't set food on fire!— danielle
- I used to think that you could get a tan if you turned the oven on, opened the door and stood in front of it.Anon
- I used to believe you could pour lemonade in a pan, put it in the oven and make lemonade cake.— wumpmugg
- i used to believe when someone died their image on photo's would disappear— beryl's girl
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy