My mum like tea and my dad liked coffee so I thought that women drank tea and men drank coffee. I didn't understand when my grandparents came to visit and my grandad was drinking tea and my grandma was drinking coffee. My mum explained to me but I didn't really believe her at the time.
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- 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