This is something I shouldn't say,but I ought to.
Until I understood what busy phones were,when I heard that telephone lines were busy,I actually thought they were doing some kind of work and could not be talked to by anyone until they finished their shift.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- I used to think that the graveyard shift was men that dug graves at night.— bianca w.
- When i was 4 i used to belive my dad was nocternal because he used to do a night shift!— Alien 5247
- i used to think that the "graveyard shift" meant that they actually had to go out and dig graves. Anon
- My wife used to believe that the purpose of the stick shift in her Dad's car was to stir the gas.— Curt
- When i was young i thought a stick shift was when u drive with a stickAnon