I always thought that when you talked on a phone a little person [Who I named Jeffery] would run through the phonewire really fast and tell the person on the other end of the phone what you were saying.
I was rather upset when I found out that the little person didnt exist
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 used to believe that anonymous was a person, and I thought, "Gee, this person writes a LOT of poems!"— Katie Albano
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- i used to think when my parents talked that "so and so" was actually a person.— karmely cullen
- I used to think that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J
- when i played pretend i always wanted to be the animal. i didnt want to b a person cause their boring lol— Melissa