I used to believe that if you called '411-Information' on the telephone, and they would be able to answer any question you had.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- Anytime you had a question (any question at all) you just called the president.— Erin
- i used to believe that my dog was really a cat in disguise trying to get information on the dog empire!— strange and used to be stupid
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra