Up until the time I actually started drinking, which was at about 14 years old, I seriously believed that only a couple sips of an alcoholic beverage could make you drunk.
When I was 14, I was at my older sister's house, and a couple of her friends were over. Mom had left for a few minutes. When mom left, my sister, 21 at the time, offered me a little bit of the Fuzzy Navel (peach-flavored wine cooler) that she was drinking. I took a couple sips and said, "If mom notices me acting funny, I'll just tell her I'm in a hyper mood." No one there bothered to tell me that I could not get drunk off just a small amount of alcohol, let alone just a wine cooler...
"And incase you're wondering, no mom was not mad, but instead let me have some at home, so I would know what it feels like, and that I would not be at some party my first time that happened)
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you swallowed wine or beer in two sips then you would get drunk— Heather
- once i was drinking aot of orange juice and my sister said i would get drunk if i had too much— deanna
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee