Because I could never figure out how telephones worked, I thought they used wires to connect everyone's house up with everyone else's in the world.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to believe my dad was the best male figure in the world and wondered why he wasn't president already.— Ivy :)
- I thought if someone worked full time it meant they worked 24/7 and never did anything else!— andalite
- I used to think that when you sent a fax, the paper went through the wires.— em
- I used to believe that bird perched on telephone wires to keep their feet warmAnon
- I used to beleive in stores that were open 24/7 , that the people that worked there worked 24/7 nonstop.Anon
- I used to belive that employees who worked at 24/7 shops lived there and never slept!(they worked 24/7)— tilly Waukesha WI