I used to believe when I heard the obits being read on our local radio station that "friends may call between 4pm and 6pm" meant telephone calls instead of "visitation". I thought someone was going to be very busy answering the phone.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I used to wonder how they managed to fit the orchestra into the radio station.
— sally - I used to think that when a song finished on the radio it would play again on the next station— Maria
- I used to believe that if you spoke into the speakers that they would hear it at the radio station. — natalie
- Well into adulthood I thought that a local anesthetic meant one from the area near the hospital..— D'sparil
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon