I used to think that when you dialed a telephone number with letters in it, that the phone actually KNEW which letters you were dialing. I would always ask my dad "How does the phone know which letter you want to dial when there are three letters on each number?"
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to think "Zed" and "Zee" were two different letters.Anon
- From the first six letters of this word, I thought that “megalomania” had something to do with megalodons.— Enrico
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to believe that translating from language into language was only a matter of changing letters ! :) — EwS
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge