When my mother called someone, then hung up the phone within a couple of seconds saying "busy signal," I thought that meant the phone company knew the other person was too busy to anwer the phone and was letting my mother know.
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
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- i used to think that mother nature was a real person— stephen s
- My little brother once asked my mother when we past a couple of factories.. if the factories made clouds— nicky
- My mother's name was Anna. She was called "Annemor"(Duck mama). I was convinced I was a duckling.— Christine Norway