When I was really young I used to think that when someone said "the winner will be chosen at random" that Random was a place!
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.— timmy
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley
- I used to believe that funerals were a place you went to buy fruit.— Paulette
- When I was 5, I thought the "restroom" was actually a place you went to take a nap. Anon