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At school, we were always taught "dont drink and drive." When my father was drinking a soda as he was driving, I freaked out.

— mie

I used to believe that when a meal or drink was 'on the house' it was actually on the roof of the building.

("Why would someone put it ON THE HOUSE?")

— Chris

I used to believe that when grow ups would shake their drink from side to side (when it had ice), they were heckling how much ice was in it and they somehow knew without looking how much there was.

— 🎈🎀

When I was little, I believed that drinking Gatorade would make me stronger like the people in the commercials I saw. One day I took a drink, flexed my arm and was very thrilled to realize I had made my "first muscle." My older cousin tried to tell me that my body was filled with muscles but I was convinced she was jealous that she wouldn't be the strongest anymore and told her not to ruin it for me.

— Morikahjo

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I used to think it was illegal for children to drink coffee

— C.W.

I used to think "Coke" and "Coca-Cola" were two completely different drinks.

— Peter

Creaming Soda is actually beer for kids.

Anon

My Friend Lisa Used To Bevile That If She Drinks
Coffee She Would Shrink.
Her Sister Told Her This When She Was 6.
She Doesn't Drink Coffee Now.

— Jamie

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There was this juice brand called "Hi-C," and I thought it said "hic," as in hiccups.

(Hyphens make differences.)

Anon

When I was too young to drink Coca-Cola, my dad said it was an "adult drink." He later told me that he laughed while drinking Coke when he was a kid, and I was confused. He then explained that he was more of a teenager.

Anon

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When my sister was little, around 4 years old, I actually convinced her that chocolate milk came from brown cows.

— Neta

When I was a kid, my mom wouldn't let my sister and I drink soda in the back seat of the car. For years, I thought that's what the people on the radio meant when they said "drinking and driving" was something you shouldn't do.

Anon

My Sister Used To Believe That OJ Makes Kids Shrink.
I Told Her OJ Was Good For Her.
She Said "I Don't Want To Shrink, OJ Make Kids Shrink."

— Bud

when i was a kid my father drank alcohol which i thought he was drinking the alcohol that gets put on cuts which made me hide the alcohol so i could use it on my cuts.

— Mister I

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I used to think that adults drank coffee because the bad taste would wake them up.

Anon

When I was in kindergarten or first grade, an older girl in the neighborhood told me that I shouldn't take a pill when I was sick because it would "go down the wrong pipe" and get stuck, making me choke. I became deathly afraid of pills and had to take either chewable or liquid medicine until I was a teenager, all because I believed that a pill would get stuck between my mouth and my belly.

Anon

I used to think that the pop machines had a person inside that would sit inside in a stool an dispense the pop to you.

Anon

Until I was 11, I used to believe that you could get drunk by drinking too much soda. One day, when I had about 3 cans of soda to drink, I ran to my mother crying "Mom! I'm sorry! I had too much soda and now I'm drunk! I'm sorry mom!"

— Ari Evan

Until I was in my mid teens, I believed that milk causes cancer in adults. My dad told me that so he could drink pepsi with dinner, even though we had to drink milk to "grow big and strong."

— Krista Gossett

I used to believe when the say "don't drink & drive" you couldn't drink anything while driving..so I seen my mom drinking a soda and I said "you're going to go to jail" and she told me what "don't drink & drive" really means lol

— Briaaa

when I was little, I was told that my Grandmother told me that drinking soda from a can put metal around my brain......i beleived that until i was ten...

— Kayle

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