My dad would drive past a funeral palour on our way home from school and it was called 'Docking Funerals' I thought for years that you had to dock a funeral when sombody died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- 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
- 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
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam