When I was young(about 6ish), my mother's friend mentioned that she had bought an answering machine.
I, for the next few years wondered what voice the 'answers' would use, and what the 'answers' would be.
(damn.. shoulda asked what the meaning of life was)
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- sophie b. hawkins. Damn I wish I was your lover. I heard Damn I wish I was your motherAnon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- When asked why he didn't finish eating the crust from his pizza, a young friend said "I don't eat the bone".— Dustin
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen