I used to think that the dangers of drinking and driving included soda, juice, milk, or water.

Rick

"Don't drink and drive" was drilled into my head at a very early age. I remember driving in the car with my father when I was about 6. I started crying because he was drinking a can of Pepsi. I thought he was going to get pulled over and arrested.

Suzy-Q

I used to think that "don't drink and drive" meant that you really couldn't drink ANYTHING and once lecured my mom for drinking coffee while driving. I was about 4.

Tina, 25

I remember when i was small i saw a magnet on my grandmothers fridge that said "MADD DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE"

so i took this literally....i thought you couldn't drink ANYTHING while driving...cuz when i saw my mom drinking some water while driving I was appalled.....i was like"mommy, you shouldn't drink and drive" She laughed

Anon

I saw the don't drink and drive ads and i was scared because my dad always had tea on long trips. I was afraid he would be pulled over and arrested.

john

My sister believed that if a person was "Drinking and driving." that it was any drink, not necessarily alcoholic, and the reason why people swerved was because they had a cup or a bottle in their face, and couldn't see out of the windshield properly.

Yellow

Don't drink and drive! Literally. I would fuss at the driver if they had so much as a coke in their hand.

Élistariel

When i was little my mom always would always tell me that "you should never drink and drive". i guess she thought she was doing a good thing by stessing such an important thing at an early age, but as a young child i was much too young to know about alcohol or it's effects (my parents never drank), so i of course thought that "drinking and driving" meant drinking ANYTHING while driving in a vehicle, and i never drank any fluids in the car until i was older and understood what she had meant. :)
At least my "no drinking and driving" mindset made for far fewer bathroom stops on family road trips as a kid. :)

miss helen

my mums boyfriend got banned for drink driving - i immediately had a picture in my head of him drinking a 2 litre bottle of lemonade whilst driving his car. im dumb!!

roxie

"Don't drink and drive" to me meant anything. Water, coke, coffee. But then I always wondered, "Why do cars have cup holders?" I thought car companies were rebels who wanted people to drink and drive!

Lindyanna Jones

I truly thought that 'drinking and driving' was any drink. it was fair enough, i thought, as if you drink a bottle of water, as it starts to get empty, you have to tilt your head back (and therefore, take your eyes off the road). i never once thought it was alcohol related till i reached about 11.
i thought i had it all worked out :(

Anon

I once heard on the news when you drink and drive you get arrested and you get put to jail.So one day my mom got a bootle of coke at the store and started drinking it when she was driving and we stopped at a stop light there was a police car right behind us. So when I saw him right behind our car I started balling my head of screaming mom is going to get arrested cause shes drinking while shes driving but then she said she wasnt going to get arrested.

oshjay

When I saw commercials saying "Don't drink and drive" i thought that meant you weren't allowed to drink anything while you were driving. So when my dad was drinking a pop I told him that you weren't supposed to drink and drive.

Anon

When I was about four, I was riding in the car with my mother. She had a big cup of soda-pop from some fast food resteraunt, and she picked it up and took a sip at the stoplight. I was horrified, and made that clear. After all, I was pretty much certain that there was something very wrong with "drinking and driving."

She, of course, explained what that phrase actually meant.

Pink

When I first heard the saying "don't drink and drive," I thought that went for any drink. I thought "then why are there even cupholders in cars?!"

Anon

I believed for a long time that 'Drinking and Driving' meant drinking anything while driving, not just alcohol.

Nik