When I was little I believed that whenever someone would leave a message on a answering machine, but not talk, they could hear everything that is going on in my house.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - i once believed that S.W.A.T.
standed for sit,wait,and,talk.
lol!— Hawk - I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10