When I was a kid, taking the example of pipes that supply
hot and cold water, and take away waste from the drain, I assumed that the
things you ate and drank travelled around one's body in similar pipes,
metal no less. I believed that there two openings in the back of ones
mouth or throat; once was the pipe for liquids, one was the pipe for
food. I suppose I came up with this arbitrary separtion by noting the
separate "pipes" for liquid and solid waste. I was always curious to know
how exactly your body managed to direct food or liquid to the appropriate
pipe and how it dealt when say, I mixed a bit of water with my food as I
ate.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think a drain pipe in my backyard led to another world.Anon
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe all liquids were water-based with things added to it to make different kinds of liquids.Anon
- I used to think water towers were where everyone's uh...waste...went to from the toilets.— Stephanie
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario