Once my sister [three years younger] picked up the phone and left it off the hook for a couple minutes. We weren't really allowed to use the phone at the time [I was about 5 or 6]. The lady that comes on when you leave it off the hook long enough started talking, and saying "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again." I didn't know it was a recording, and I got really upset and thought she was really mad at us, and that she was going to contact our parents and get us in big trouble.
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
- That captain hook lived in my closet on the very top shelf.Anon
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- Up until I was about seven, I thought soda pop was alcoholic and that's why kids weren't allowed it.Anon
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria