I used to believe that written messages could be passed through the phoneline. I spent ages trying to send cards through the reciever! I even tried to send my grandmother some icecream...
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- When i was little, I used to send Jesus birthday cards on christmas and thought he would read them in heaven.Anon
- i beleived that once the tiolet was a big dinosaur and if i sat on it, it would eat my bum and send me to jailAnon
- i always wondered why people sent plums to the queen, in the anthem "send her victorias"— anon uk
- My mother told me that when the icecream man played music that meant he was OUT of icecream.— B. Jones
- My Mum told me that when the icecream man played his music it meant that he had run out of icecream!Anon
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather