I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a morman was a scary person who lived underground(actually called a moleman).— Mike
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart