The very first time I had to do a report for school...I thought I could just dial "information" on the phone and someone would look things up for me.
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
- When I was five, I tried to report myself to the police because I'd drawn on the furniture.Anon
- i used to believe that my dog was really a cat in disguise trying to get information on the dog empire!— strange and used to be stupid
- When I was a kid, I believed that bible school was "beauty school", and called it that all the time.— Dana
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle