I used to believe that only men smoked cigarettes and only women drank coffee. I guess this because my dad smoked but didn't drink coffee and my mom drank coffee and didn't smoke. When my dad's (male) friend drank coffee in the morning I was preplexed.
A childhood belief about smoking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- if you drank coffee before your 16th birthday, your skin will turn purple.Anon
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I used to belief that the birth mark on my dad's leg was where he spilled his coffee... EVERY morning.— Liz