When I was about 5, my father was on the phone with someone and laughing quite a bit. Although I could only hear one side of the conversation, I had recently learned the secret to hearing both sides of it. So I climbed up onto his lap and put my ear firmly against his ear (the one opposite from his phone ear) and listened closely until he asked what I was doing. I explained that I was hoping the other person's words would go in out ear and out the other.
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 believe that my doll Kimberly was real and if I listened carefully, that I'd hear her speak!— Kristy
- I used to believe that "Our Father, who art in heaven" meant that God was also a painter on the side. — Amanda
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.