When I was younger, I didn't realize that when we got a phone call, you could hear it from any of the extensions in our house. I didn't know that they were all one phone line. I thought my parents were phycic or something because they could always tell which phone was ringing and I couldn't!

Anon

I used to believe when I heard the obits being read on our local radio station that "friends may call between 4pm and 6pm" meant telephone calls instead of "visitation". I thought someone was going to be very busy answering the phone.

anon

When you get the error message that ends "...if you need help, hang up, and then dial your operator," I heard "hang up, and burn down your operator."

I didn't think that the phone people actually wanted you to set an operator on fire, but I just figured that "to burn down" was a saying or idiom of some kind that I just hadn't learned yet.

JupiterAmy

I used to believe that everyone's phone number was 1-800-[their name.] So my friend Lindsay's number would have been 1-800-Lindsay, Big Bird's was 1-800-Big-Bird, etc.

Jolene

We always used to think that you couldn`t get pregnant if you had sex in a telephone box. Let your fingers do the walking.....

Ricardo De Force

i used to belive that if u shreded a piece of paper and put in the holes of thee telephone that the person on the other end would recive if and they would then have to work out what the message was

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