Before I had my own mobile phone (cellphone) I used to think that if you phoned one, you would hear their ringtone in your reciever!
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