When I was young I loved game shows. When they would announce that something or someone had been picked "at random" I thought random was an actual 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
- When I was very young, I believed that my parents actual names were "mum" and "dad". — Margo
- I used to believe that the game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess was the longest game ever.Anon
- I used to think that teachers always had to officially announce to the whole class why someone was off sick.Anon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon