I'm a tea lover and when I first met my now husband he wouldn't touch the stuff.
When he was a child his mother told him tea was a woman's drink and if boys drank it, it shrunk their wee-wee's!! Poor thing, there he was 20 years old and he still believed it!
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- sophie b. hawkins. Damn I wish I was your lover. I heard Damn I wish I was your motherAnon
- My auntie was told by her husband that glacia cherries were made of seaweed, she wouldnt eat them for years. — emma
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- I believed for years that the sun and moon were the same thing - it just glowed more in the day :)— Deb