Whenever i would talk on the phone, i thought if you said a bad word, the telephone would beep it out, i was talking to my mom (i was only about 6) and i had said shit and i thought it had beeped it out, it did not......
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- up until i was like 13 i thought that oral sex was phone sex and dirty talk.— RoNiBoB311
- My sister used to think that "spit" was a bad word. She meant "shit".— "Spit!"
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- I used to believe that having "oral sex" was talking dirty to your partner on the phone. Boy was I mistaken.— East End Kid
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny