When I was young, I used to think that if I picked up the phone while it was ringing then I would get electrocuted. I thought this because everyone that would answer the phone would wait until after the ring.
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
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- I thought there was only one copy of a movie and you had to wait til it got to your town,— quagmire
- I thought if i picked my nose too many times, my head would blow up.— i m a moron