When people used to tell me that "the line was busy" (on a telephone), I always pictured a lion sitting at a desk with large stacks of paperwork to finish.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- when i was younger i believed that clouds were made from the smoke stacks — lisa
- I used to think the clouds were made of the steam that comes out of the factory smoke stacks.— TJ
- I used to believe that a "punch line" meant a line of people waiting to dip punch from a punch bowl.— Sheila
- I used to believe that when I used up all the sheets in my desk scratch pad, I would be married.— Barb
- I used to believe that smoke stacks that pumped out white smoke were cloud makers.— lizzie