there used to be a commercial on tv about a law firm, and there was a line in the commercial that said "if you have a phone, you have a lawyer" so one day i went to my mom and asked her who our lawyer was, and said we don't have a lawyer." and i said " but we have a telephone" i was so confused, i had though we got riped off, because every phone came with a lawyer.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to think that if a lawyer lost his case, he had to go to jail with his client.Anon
- I used to believe when a person was convicted of a crime and sent to prison, his lawyer went to prison, too.— Tara
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- Because of a commercial I seen on tv, I thought the whole world was the size of the of the U.S.— Paulette
- When I was little, I used to think the commercial advertising the Mitsubishi car was actually a Mr Fishy Car.Anon
- I used to believe that spaghetti grew on trees, based on a pasta commercial from the 70s.— Dianne