I used to believe an answering machine was a device that answered ANY questions you asked it, through some kind of magic.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- My sister thought a fruit machine (the gaming device) could turn one item of fruit into another.— Richard Davies
- every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked— sext4eva
- when asked what i would like to be when i grew up, as a girl of about 5, i answered "a horsey".Anon
- When a "mean girl" in early grade school asked me if I was a virgin I answered "no I am catholic."— Hilary
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen