I used to think that when you were on the phone, the person you were speaking to would shrink themselves and crawl up the wire and sit in the handset.
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who were speaking foreighn languages were just speaking gibberish.— Zoe
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- i used to think mushrooms made you shrink— deanna
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- When I was little I wanted to be an actress because I thought they shrink you and put you inside of a TV.— Lindsay