I used to believe there was only one operator ("call the Operator"). After we cranked call The Operator I was afraid to dial 0, because I thought she would recognize my voice and make me hand the phone to the nearest adult.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"— Steph
- When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".— Brookstar78
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I used to call croutons "concretes" because they were so crunchy, I thought they were made of concrete.— Scary Dream
- i thought that soft drinks in America would explode in a person's mouth bocause they call it 'pop'.— Aussie!
- I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon