When my mother used to try to make phone calls and 'it was busy.' I always wondered how the phone knew the people were busy.
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 a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- i always wondered why people sent plums to the queen, in the anthem "send her victorias"— anon uk
- Some sport cars have a double exhaust. I wondered why. Why would people want to pollute twice as much?— F*ck the environment?