When I had scrapes and cuts, my mom would sometimes clean them with rubbing alcohol. When I got into elementary school, they'd tell us that alcohol is bad and that you shouldn't drink it. So I sniffed the bottle of rubbing alcohol one day and I couldn't imagine anyone actually drinking that stuff.
A childhood belief about drinks
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 believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne
- That by drinking a daily dose of buttermilk one would clean the blood thereby avoiding ACNE— Richard in Durham
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon