When I was a child I was warned never to drink hot drinks through a straw. The warning seemed so dire that I thought the straw somehow turned hot drinks into poison and if I drank them that way I would die.
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- Through second grade I always concluded the pledge with '...indivisible, with liberty and just a straw.'— George
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike
- Thanks to my grandmother, I used to believe that my belly button was where Jesus blew me up with a straw.— Michele
- i thought that soft drinks in America would explode in a person's mouth bocause they call it 'pop'.— Aussie!
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras