I used to believe that when you died, your tongue would automatically stick out. Whenever I played dead, I would stick my tongue out. When I was 9, my brother told me I stupid after I "died" during a game of "cops and robbers."
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon