when passing a cemetary my dad said, "do you know what all those flowers are for?"
"no"
"under each flower is a dead body"
my mom protested: "don't tell her that!"
i assumed she was yelling at him for lying to me as he often did, so i didn't believe him.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I used to believe that if you crossed your fingers when you were lying, you weren't really lying.— jo
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon