Growing up, I always heard the term "alcoholic" said with the word "beverage." I therefore thought that beverage was a term for an alcoholic drink. When we would stop at a gas station I would refuse to get a drink if the sign above the drinks said "Beverages." I thought it was for adults only. One time I saw my grandmother get a ginger ale from the Beverages section of a gas station and because I had also heard the term ale in regards to alcoholic drinks, I came to the conclusion that ginger ale was alcoholic.
It took me years to learn otherwise. All those times I declined a sip of ginger ale, she probably thought I just wasn't thirsty or didn't want her germs.
I thought she was trying to offer me a sip of booze!
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you smoked a cigarette while drinking an alcoholic beverage you would blow up!— Sue
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- i used to believe that toblerone was alcoholic. my mum told us that so she could have it all.— Cait
- I used to think, all the way up to eight grade that if you smoked cigarettes you were an alcoholic— praneeth
- I used to belive that it was Illeagal to drink ANY beverage while driving, not just alcohol.— Emma*