I overhead my mother talking with someone one day when I was around four years old about someone that didn't drink. When I asked "didn't they ever get thirsty?", she explained that it meant the person didn't drink alcohol. I thought she meant rubbing alcohol, and I wondered about people that actually DID drink that awful stuff...
A childhood belief about nasty food
others believed things like this
- I used to belive that it was Illeagal to drink ANY beverage while driving, not just alcohol.— Emma*
- I used to think that if you mixed a diet drink with a regular drink, it would explode. Anon
- I thought tonic water was toxic water and wondered why would anyone drink it if it is toxic?— Dr.Badguy
- I thought that soda was also called "pop" because if you drink too much of it, you'd explodeAnon
- When I was young I refused to drink well water because I thought it came out of whales.— itodd
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon