The phrase, "the line is busy," always made me imagine a lion at a telephone switchboard working frantically trying to connect all the calls going through. Unfortunately at the time that my parents were calling he was just too busy to put their call through.
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 think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.— Scary Dream
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)