I used to believe that if you cut open a telephone wire and put your ear to it, you could her people's conversations...glad I never tried it!
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I used to think that teenagers had really interesting conversations.— Nathan
- 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)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra