I used to believe that 'call girl' was another word for a female telephone operator. It used to come up in episodes of 'Columbo' that such-and such, a call girl, was murdered on....
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to believe all dogs were male and all cats were female. I still call dogs "boy" and cats "girl." — Kelly F.
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha
- My niece used to call Marmite Falloy! Where she got the word Falloy from nobody knows— Russ
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- I used to believe that the words to Michael Jacksons "Liberian Girl" were "librarian girl".— Paul