science

I can remember misdialing a phone number as a small child and hearing a pre-recorded voice. The voice said, "If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator." I used to think it said "Bend down your operator." I couldn't figure out how making a telephone operator bend down was supposed to help you make a call...

When I was younger, I tried many times to dial the telephone number of my own house to see if I could hear myself talking. When my parents explained that I couldn't get an answer from the number because it was our own house, I tried taking the cordless phone outside and calling from the backyard, thinking that one of the other phones in the house would ring.
To this day, my father swears that when he was a boy (and phones were more primative) it was possible to call your own number and get a ring. I'm still not sure if I believe this.

One time I was trying to record my voice on the computer so I could play it back. So i talked but it didn't work. So then I got my mother and all she did was laugh and ask why are u talking into the speaker.(13 years old)

My older sister, playingly, told me that there were little lego people in the furnace vent that every now and then would light fires and blow the hot air out of the vents. I used to sit in front of the furnace talking into it. You can imagine what my parents must of thought.

Well when I was little I used to beleive that fax machines rolled the paper into a little roll and then send them through little pipes to the owner. It took me years before I relized that they just scanned them.

Talk about a paper jam!

When I was a kid, I asked my dad about the meaning of the AM/FM switch on the radio. He said that if you changed the switch, the radio would turn into a different radio. I had the image of doors folding and unfolding and the radio becoming much bigger -- more like a home stereo (AM -> FM ?). I was very careful *never* to touch that switch, because I didn't want my daddy to lose his portable AM radio.

My sisters once told me that if you tripped, and then had something sudden happen to attract your attention, you would float. They told me that this was because we are so convinced that the Laws of Gravity are true that therefore they work. But when you are suddenly distracted, you forget about the Laws of Gravity and thus you float. Lets just say that jumping off of stools and ladders and having your sisters throw things at you is not a good idea...
(I believed this for several days until my Dad told me that they got it from some books by Douglas Adams.)

I used to think that someone's house number was their telephone number, so I used to try and ring the people who lived opposite by dialling 143.

In our laundry room there was a single light bulb hanging from the middle of the ceiling. I noticed that my shadow overtook me everytime I walked from one wall to the opposite one, and that really amazed me.
When I was 5 I thought that if I could run fast enough I could get to the opposite wall before my shadow gets there as well.

I used to think that to call my nana, you just had to pick the phone up, and wait (my nana's special like that!). I used to have very long conversations with the recording saying 'please replace the handset, and try again'. I remember i got really upset one time, when the siren noise (to let you know that you've left the phone off the hook) at the other end started, i thought she was mad at me!

I used to believe that if I jumped from a height and I had my legs crossed I wouldn't break my legs and I would land unharmed.

We were talkin gabout a holiday a load of us were going on with our school when one of my friends commented on the fact she was gonna take diposable cameras so hers wouldn't get lost when another girl piped up "i don't see the point of disposable cameras, you spend all that time trying to get the pictures right, then you throw the camera away!' She was 13 at the time...

I used to believe…

that blackouts were caused by evil monkey's turning off all the lights.

When you go up in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back down to that floor.

When you go down in an elevator, the elevator surpasses your destination floor and then goes back up to that floor.

when I was a little boy I thought that there is metal and iron. I didn't know that iron is metal too. Till I found out that iron IS metal and copper is metal and aluminium....
ah, and I also thought that steel plate is another kind of metal too.

the second thing I believed is that real iron, real pure iron is so heavy - you can't lift it

When I was younger and I was looking at some photos of me and some friends. I saw that one of them had red-eye, me not knowing what had happened figured that he was the devil! I blanked him and ran away, until I got a phonecall home to my mum from the school asking why me and the boy werent friends, I told my mum he was the devil and showed her the photo to prove it, she burst out laughing and told my teacher the whole story!!