When I was 6, I would often wonder what would happen if you called your own phone number from another phone in the house. When I asked my mom, she told me that a group of telephone workers watched what numbers you dialed, and if you dialed your own they would come and investigate. Somehow my young brain interpreted this as "A hundred tall, scary men in black trenchcoats will come, stick you in the back of their van, and kidnap you". It's no wonder I left phones alone.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- i thought if you dialed 666 you got upside down policemen.— rufus
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- That numbers went 1-99 the A hundred, a hundred and one til a hundred and ninety nine. Then ONE hundred...— Foolhardy
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- 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