When I was little I thought you had 2 holes in your throat, one for food & one for drink. Therefore when I coughed whilst eating or drinking it had "gone down the wrong hole".
Soup used to confuse me greatly!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- when i was little i used to think that drinking soup would make me taller — gella pas doue
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I hated french onion soup so my dad told me that it was banana soup and i lapped it up for years.— AussieMeg
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- when i was younger (8 or 9) and i farted my dad used to tell me not to worry, that my bum just coughed.— james