I used to believe that drinking ordinary coffee would make you short. I once asked my Mon if I could taste her coffee. She asked me if I wanted to grow up big and tall. I nodded my agreement with her. She told me to look at her-she is very short only 5' tall-she drank lots of coffee. "Coffee stunts your growth, just look at me!" I wanted to be tall so I wouldn't go near coffee until I was over eighteen years old even though I had long since realized that drinking coffee does not stunt one's growth. To this day, I still will not drink coffee-incidentally I grew up to be 5'4" tall-no coffee drinking involved here. I think this was Mom's devious way of being immortal because I think of her and chuckle everytime some asks me if I want cup of coffee.
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others believed things like this
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.