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What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

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[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought answering machines were something just made up by TV shows because we never had an answering machine.

[–] Crotaro@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I was so confused over how answering machines worked, but I don't remember the specifics anymore! I think what confused me was, how and especially where the messages would be stored. As in, can my neighbours call the number of my answering machine (if we had had one) and then listen to the messages that were left for us?