when i was about 11 or 12 years old, i tried to call a friend but accidentally dialled the wrong number. and instead got a very strange tone i've never heard before. i figured i've stumbled onto some kind of alternate dimension or secret military line, and would periodically call that number to see if the tones change... but it was always the same. it wasn't till much later that i learnt it was a fax line.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew