I used to believe that if you dialed "0" and didn't press another button on the phone REALLY fast then the you would call the police. I would get very nervous anytime I had to call my friend at 868-0791. Sometimes I just couldn't handle the pressure and I'd walk to his house instead.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Karma Police" was actually saying "call the police" before I learned the title— Alberto Richardson
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to believe that inside each volcano there was a guy who'd press a button to make it erupt.— Jim, UK
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon