I believed that when my parents told me they had to go to a funeral and they were going to "calling hours", that they were in fact going to go and sit at a large conference table and answer the phone when people called. I was 22 when I realized the truth at the first funeral I attended.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- My mom told me one day that she was going to a funeral. I thought it was a place to buy fruit.— Paulette
- When you saw a funeral go by, you had to grab a button on your shirt.Anon
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- 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