I believed that telephone operators were in the telephone poles, and I thought that you had to be really skinny to be a telephone operator.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- 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
- For years and years I thought telephone poles grew.— Maureen
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni