In my childhood, to make a phone call, you picked up the receiver and waited for a live operator to say, "Number, please?" She would make the call for you.
I believed that if the telephone operator could tell you when a line was busy, they should also be able to tell you when no one was home.
A childhood belief about telephones
others believed things like this
- I always wanted to use the telephone to call Jesus, Santa and Superman— Alex Burghart
- I used to think that in the song "Smooth Operator" they were saying "Schooooooool's not forever!"— Steph
- When I was a kid I was completely convinced that Sade's "Smooth operator" was "Ooh of the red eye".— Brookstar78
- In childhood, I waited behind the theatre, after the Cinema, hoping to see the artists came out .
— mprnair. - I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine