I used to believe that pressing the number 4 on the telephone, without pressing anything else, was the same thing as calling 911.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to belief that women had babies by pressing their belly buttons!— amy
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon
- My friend and I used to believe that we could gain special powers by pressing our bellybuttons and wishing.— Andrew
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni