When you call someone on the phone, the ring you hear on the receiver is exactly how that someone's phone sounds like as they hear it ring before they pick it up.
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 that no one could hear me when I hummed — Grace
- When i was about 5 years old, i used to believe that everything i thought people could hear!Anon
- I used to belive that if I put my finges in my ears when i sang noone could hear me— Helen