i used to thing that people could see you over the phone. Once my grandpa called and i was convinced he could see the picture i was showing the reciever

marty

When I was around 5 years old, I frequently heard my great-aunt say to my older sister, "Stop tying up the phone!" (as in talking on the phone too much)

That led me to believe that she was actually tying knots in the phone connection line.

Anon

I used to believe that whenever I talked on the phone, people could see through it too. I always used to call my grandma whenever I got hurt, and point the phone where I got mt knee skinned.

Shelby

I used to believe that the phone company was listening to me whenever I talked on the phone because my mother told me it was illegal to use swear words on the phone. So I figured someone must have the job of listening on all the phones for swears all day and then sending the police to arrest people who had bad language.

Carrie

I used to think you could dial your own telephone and speak to yourself - I could never work out why it was always engaged!

Cold Caller

When i first heard of fax machines i used to believe that there was an invisible line in the sky that it would transfer the page and papers would "move" around the sky...

Anon

After viewing a particularly violent TV ad for the Confidential Telephone (this is 80's Northern Ireland), I became convinced that confidential meant something awfully, horribly sinister. I asked my ma but wouldn't believe her when she told me. I was old enough to look it up in a dictionary, but I was too scared.

jacinta

When I was a little girl i used to believe that when you call the 113 to ask the time there was an employee waiting anxiously to answer.
i everÇn tell "her "- thank you- every time i used it.
then, i discover it was a computer!

Celeste

When i was little i was always dead silent when the telephone answering machine came on because i thought that the person calling could hear me, so if it was a bill collector I would always hush up

Anon

When I was a kid, I thought my mother and a neighbor frequently gave each other rings (rings like one wears on one's finger). I watched to see them wearing all those new rings, but I never did. I didn't realize yet that when they said, "I'll give you a ring", they were talking about making phone calls to each other.

Greg

I had a toy phone at once when I was about 8 if you pressed 0 it would talk. So it made me belive that there was a person liveing in every phone.

James

I used to believe that your social security number because your phone number when you grew up - understandable, because the first three digits of my own social security number happened to have been the same as the first three in my phone number! :)

NYSSA

when i was 3or 4 and out with my parents, my mothing said we had better get home before the phone rang off the wall. When we got home, I checked and the phone was where it should be & I told her it hadn't rung off the wall!

Lisa

I thought the Operator lived inside the telephone.

marianne

When I was 4 I used to believe that we can do everying over the phone.Oneday my father called us and told me that he bought me a beautiful teddy bear so I insisted to give it to me over the phone and cried till I fell asleep

Kathy

I used to believe that when you were on the phone and put someone old old, you could actually put the phone back on the receiver and when you picked it up again, the caller would still be there.

Valerie

i used to try to call places by dialing things like "santa" into the phone to call him and toys to call a toystore. Boy was i surprised when "Santa" spoke a wierd language.

poisen

When me and my cousin were little we thought that if we held up our new barbie dolls up to the speaker on the phone the person on the other end could see them. When she did it I would always pretend to see her doll. We werent the brightest kds in the world.

Barbie doll through the Telephone

When I was eight I thought Star 69 was the universal number for cell phones. Nevermind how it could possibly be the number for ALL cell phones in the world and yet you'd still be able to directly reach the person you want to talk to.

Major lack of logic lawl

I used to think that someone's house number was their telephone number, so I used to try and ring the people who lived opposite by dialling 143.

Clarabel