When I watched my parents using the telephone, I thought they had to wait for it to ring, then pick it up and dial a number. It took me some time to realise that you did one or the other, but not both.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to believe your parents PICK your birthday.— Stella
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- Phil Collins song "I missed again" - I thought it was "I pis*ed again" - didn't realise he was an alcoholic?!Anon