I used to believe that if someone offerered to give you their phone number, you would have to actually permanantly swap your home phone numbers. I liked my phone number, so I would always turn people down when they offered me theirs.
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
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe that after the number "ten" came the numbers "tendy-one, tendy-two..." etc.Anon
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew