i used to thing that people could see you over the phone. Once my grandpa called and i was convinced he could see the picture i was showing the reciever
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 used to believe that people from Holland were called "Hollish", like people from Poland are called "Polish"— Sally
- Until I was about four and a bit my father had me convinced that Friesian cows were called "big cats".— Chris
- When I first started learning to read I was convinced that vowels were called barnacles.— Andy Howell
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin