i used to think that people's phone numbers were 1-800 and then their name. i'd always be trying to call 1-800-bigbird or something like that. because, yeah, i thought big bird was real too.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- I used to believe that boys were like robots and had no real feelings, that they were not even real people.— Lisa
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy
- This may sound absurd but I thought the numbers next to the Bible versus said what time the person said it at!— Biomeka