When I was growing up in the early 80's, I thought that when my parents called the "operator", they were calling this one lady that they knew, and she knew everyone's phone number, her name was "operator"
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- 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
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- I use to think that Bruce Springsteen's song "growing up" was called "throwing up"— glowworm
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine