When I was around six I was told the joke:
Where do hamsters go when they die?
To Hamsterdam.
I took this literally and later asked my parents where Hamsterdam, being told that it was in Holland I thought that this was heaven and everyone went there when they died. At my grandfarthers funeral I told my grandma
"Don't worry, Grandad is in Holland now."
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I thought Hall and Oates was Holland Oats.Anon
- I used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- My mom told me one day that she was going to a funeral. I thought it was a place to buy fruit.— Paulette
- My Grandad told me he invented carrots.— Nicole
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela