I found out the old guy who lived next door had died, and had been cremated. One day not long after we were driving into Lancaster and my Mom pointed out the hospice to me. It had all these silver pipes running in and out of one side of the biggest building. I thought that they pushed the dead oldies into these pipes and they landed in the incinerator. I found out (years) later that these were air-conditioning ducts.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that car exhaust pipes were what propelled cars, instead of the engines.— Thomas Johnston
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to think that little bakers lived in the toaster who baked the bread and pushed it back up.— Karen K