I used to believe that when you were on the phone and put someone old old, you could actually put the phone back on the receiver and when you picked it up again, the caller would still be there.
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
- if you picked your nose, your eyes would pop out!!!Anon
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose then your head would cave in!— Sir Jared
- my mum once told me if you picked your nose your brains came out!!!!— smiley : )