When I was younger, I didn't realize that when we got a phone call, you could hear it from any of the extensions in our house. I didn't know that they were all one phone line. I thought my parents were phycic or something because they could always tell which phone was ringing and I couldn't!
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
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull