I used to think you could dial your own telephone and speak to yourself - I could never work out why it was always engaged!
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to think being engaged meant being in jail. I have no idea how I came to that conclusion.— CNB
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni
- I used to believe that telephone poles grew out of the ground.— Jennifer (the blonde)
- I used to believe a mile was the distance between telephone poles.— Allegra
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy