When I was little, I used to be petrified of mannequins. I don't know why, but I have distinct memories of going through department stores with my mother and screaming bloody murder whenever we passed mannequins. I thought that they were real people who were paid to stand really still and grab children who were really bad in the department store and take them away from their parents.
A childhood belief about going shopping
others believed things like this
- I used to think that mannequins were real people who had been beheaded. Creepy thought....
Anon - I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- My dad he used to tell me that mannequins were actually people who had been frozen.— Alecia
- I used to believe that the people that worked in stores slept right there on the floor and lived there. Anon
- I used to think that only grown ups were "people".Children to me were no people ,they were just children.— Minny
- I used to beleive in stores that were open 24/7 , that the people that worked there worked 24/7 nonstop.Anon