When I was little, I had went to call my grandma on the phone in my mom's bedroom, but had forgot the number. I left the phone off the hook to go ask my mom for the number. When I came back, the recording was on the phone that says "If you would like to make a call, please hang up and dial again". I picked up the phone, hearing the voice, and thought someone was actually on the other end of the phone talking to me. I sat there for hours talking to the recording, finally my mom came into the room and asked if I was talking to grandma. Excitedly I looked at my mom and said "Nope! I've been talking to the dial lady, she's been saying the same thing for a long time... I think her memory isn't very good, but she is a good listener! She even plays music that sounds like beeping noises when she doesn't talk!"
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
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- When the police are talking about "rap sheets," I thought that the criminals were making rap music.Anon
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- Until about age 9, I thought there was a country called "Operaland" where everyone sang instead of talking.Anon