My Mom and I used to drive up to another town in California to visit some friends of hers quite often. On the way, we would always pass the same Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. In the window was propped a life-size mannequin of Colonel Sanders, the company's mascot. The first time we drove past it, my mother, thinking herself to be hilarious, told me that the mannequin was actually the REAL Colonel Sander's mummified body, preserved, stuffed, and put up for display. I believed this for many years afterward, always staring with amazement as we drove by, wondering why the body had not decayed yet, and squeezing my eyes shut when the glare of the dead Colonel got to be too much for me to handle. Thanks, Mom.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if I pulled all my hair out, I would look like Colonel Klink (Hogans Heroes)— Cutto
- I used to believe that self drive cars actually drove themselves!Anon
- when i was younger i thought that areoplanes drove dead people to heavenAnon
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy