When I was little there would be a recording on the telephone if you held it to your ear without dialing, saying "please hang up and try your call again..." etc. I used to think that was a real woman but she wasn't allowed to say anything else. So I would often hold our house phone to my ear until she would "answer", then I would joke around, yell things at her and make weird noises, trying to make her mess up her lines or get angry at me.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I always thought the connectors on the telephone lines were flying turtles.— Angie B
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I used to believe that I HAD to make up my own language and teach it to everyone. I was soo weird.— one day maybe!
- I remember once a friend of mine told me that when ever you hold in your pee it would make your balls stronger— Zao
- I used to believe that you could pass things down the telephone.Anon