I used to believe that if you thought really hard about who you wanted to phone and pressed the pound button, it would automatically call the number you were concentrating on. I couldn't understand why anyone would ever use any other method. I swear it worked for me until someone told me that it wasn't possible.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- i could swear eleventeen was a number for the longest time -- it still sounds pretty convincing.— erin
- I thought that when you pressed the hazzard button in the car, the dukes of hazzard would come and save you.— smfd26
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart