When I was about 4, my mother was in the Hospital because her lungs had collapsed (abusive relationship with my father). Well, I hadn't seen her for at least two days, and she called me on the phone to talk. Well, I put the two together, and like any other logical toddler, I ran away screaming that "The Phone Ate Mommy." I cried for days.
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 used to think the song Bette Davis Eyes was called 'she's got better days besides'.— JJ Simpson
- 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
- i used to believe that if you got barked at by a dog you would die in 45 days— woza
- I use to believe that peeing was bad for your body, and it should only be done once per 3 days— Master P