When I was young I used to think that our phone only worked for English speaking people. And that if you wanted to speak another language on the phone you'd have to buy that specific phone.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- I used to believe that anyone speaking a foreign language translated it into english in their head— galen
- I used to believe that if I spoke with whatever accent a language was in, I was speaking that language...— Renae
- I used to believe that, no matter what language other people spoke, that everyone thought in EnglishAnon