When having wine with dinner my parents gave me "wine of the earth". This was water but I couldn't believe we were being allowed alcohol!
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you swallowed wine or beer in two sips then you would get drunk— Heather
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine. Anon
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- I thought that hot water couldn't put out fires.— Matt
- My mum used to tell me that you couldn't drink water out of the tap from the bathroom as it was poisonous.Anon