'Names Chosen at Random'
I thought Random was 'a place' an actual location where all the games and lottery and etc were sent to be chosen!
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
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon