My mother used to tell us that if children drank coffee they would not be able to sleep and would jump all night, so I believed just that - lying in bed and my body jumping up and down, if I drank coffee.
I also used to beleive that the kitchen appliances could go wrong and start punching your face like in Donald Duck comics, and so I was really scared, and still am, of those things (fridges, stoves, dish washers, etc.)
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- if you drank coffee before your 16th birthday, your skin will turn purple.Anon
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine. Anon