when my little sister was like 5 or 6, she thought that the phone operator was was called a yaperator!
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 think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"— Steph
- When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".— Brookstar78
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- my sister and i used to think sideburns were called "hash browns."— ginny
- When I was little - before we learned cursive - my sister and I called it 'real writing'. — Monty