When I was very young a friend of my mother would come to visit. Her leg had been amputated and when she would drink coffee I waited with great anticipation thinking that the coffee would drip out any minute.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee— C.W.
- I always thought there was a drinking age for coffee, because it was an adult drink like beer and wine.Anon
- I used to believe that coffee was tea with milk in it.Anon
- I thought you could get toffee from mixing tea and coffee.Anon
- I used to believe that the term "being mugged" meant someone beat someone else with a coffee mug.— Matt Thiel
- until 12 yo i thought buying and drinking coffee was illegal when you were under 18:) — smarty