I decided one day when I was 5 or so that if you can breath through your mouth and nose you should be able to drink though your mouth and nose too. I had a big glass of grape juice and and straw. I put the straw up one nostril and inhaled deeply. I found out the hard way that this wouldn't work. I also found out that grape juice stains.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that grape juice was called "great juice". Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a grape upside down it would come out your nose.— Cath
- i used to believe the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back" was a drinking straw. sadly, i was 23. — jennie kay
- I used to believe that the "shark mouth" nose art painted on military planes was to scare enemy pilots away.Anon
- I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee
- Through second grade I always concluded the pledge with '...indivisible, with liberty and just a straw.'— George