I used to thing that we had threee tubes at the back of our mouths. One for eating, one for drinking and one for breathing.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- I used to believe that the lungs where tubes in the neck.— Some Guy
- I thought when i was a kid, that all mailboxes had tubes that brought your mail to the person u sent it to.— Andrew
- I used to believe that monkeys were related to fish as they both have mouths!— Quako