I thought that 911 was the number you called for fire/emergency because that was the temperature fire burned at (i.e 911 degrees farenheit)
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell
- i used to think that only men could get bachelors degrees. i thought women got bachelorettes degrees.Anon
- The first time i heard of someone getting fired from a job, i thought that they were actually set on fire.Anon
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat