When I was little, I used to think that when people were on the phone, they were only pretending to be talking to someone on the other line and the phone only worked when I would use it.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- I used to beleive in stores that were open 24/7 , that the people that worked there worked 24/7 nonstop.Anon
- 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 think that there were small people on TV who worked when I turned on the TV— JAVIER