I Wasn’t Prepared for the Wax Museum

One of the places we visited during our Myrtle Beach vacation was the Hollywood Wax Museum.

Now, before anybody says it, yes… I knew it was a wax museum.

I understood the assignment.

What I wasn’t prepared for was how realistic those figures have become.

You walk around one corner and there’s Elvis.

Turn another corner and there’s Johnny Depp.

Then you see somebody standing there and suddenly your brain starts asking questions.

“Is that a wax figure?”

“Is that a tourist?”

“Should I wave?”

At one point, I spent a good fifteen seconds staring at somebody trying to figure out if they were part of the exhibit or just waiting for their family to finish taking pictures.

And honestly?

I’m still not completely sure.

Everybody else was taking selfies.

I was conducting an investigation.

The whole place had me doing double-takes. I’d look at a figure, walk away, then look back again just to make sure it hadn’t moved.

The funny thing is that nobody else seemed bothered by it.

Meanwhile, I’m over there expecting one of them to blink.

By the end of the tour, I wasn’t worried about getting lost.

I was worried one of the wax figures was going to ask me where the parking lot was.

Maybe it’s just me, but some of those wax figures looked more awake than I do before my first cup of coffee.

Have you ever visited a wax museum? And did you spend half the time trying to figure out who was real and who wasn’t?

— Steve