When my mom tried to telephone someone and she'd hang up because the line was busy, I thought she said "The lion was busy." And I thought there was a lion in a big cage somewhere and if he was eating a big steak for lunch or was otherwise busy, calls couldn't get put through till he was done.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon
- when i was little i thought my cat would turn into a lion when he got older.Anon
- I used to believe that the meat dish 'tripe' was lion.— Kent
- when ever i ate broccoli i thaught the monkey from Lion King was in there— Simon
- I grew up believing meerkats have human hands because I learned about meerkats from The Lion King.Anon
- I used to think a tiger was a female and a lion was a male... until I remembered Tony the Tiger.— Alysia