When I was small (5?), I thought I figured out how to use the telephone on my own. My best friend's name was Jennifer, so I decided to call her one day. I picked up the receiver and was delighted to discover that there were letters corresponding to the numbers. I simply dialed her name (it was the same as mine, I knew how to spell it): j-e-n-n-i, etc. By the second "e," it began to ring, and a man I didn't know answered. I dutifully gave the phone to my mom.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- when I was a child I had never seen Jennifer Lopez written down so I thought her name was Jenny Ferlopez x)— Cath
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon