When I was little, my mom called my grandmother on the phone. She let me listen for her to pick up and answer. I heard the busy signal and handed the phone back to my mom rather confused. She listened and then told me that "the lion was busy." In shock and horror I imagined that this was the sound you heard when someone (like my grandmother)was being killed and eaten by a lion.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- 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 the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- when i was little i thought my cat would turn into a lion when he got older.Anon
- when ever i ate broccoli i thaught the monkey from Lion King was in there— Simon
- I grew up believing meerkats have human hands because I learned about meerkats from The Lion King.Anon