When I was a little kid I thought that when you called someone, there was a tiny replica of them inside the telephone that talked to you. I wondered how there got to be a tiny replica of everyone in the world inside our phone. It seemed very impractical.
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 tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon
- My older brother made me believe that wristwatches were powered by tiny Japanese men inside them.— Outsider
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- When I was a little I thought TV was full of tiny books and we would watch one every day— Amine