I used to believe that in order to top up a mobile phone you had to open the back and put actual bank notes or coins in it, and I thought that as you were calling or texting someone there was a little mouth in the phone that sucked up all the money.
A childhood belief about technology

others believed things like this
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- When my brother was 5 I use to swap a $5.00 note for lots of coins because he thought that I had more money— MATT NEWTON
- I thought it was against the law to carry around a lot of money unless you were putting it in the bank.Anon
- Yep I thought the Zephyr song was fly away on my cell phone— Jenny
- i used to believe that if you were broke that you could go to the bank and get money for free!— Karianne
- I used to believe that as long as there were checks in the checkbook, there was money in the bank.— Michelle