As a child I used to listen to radio programs. Often the host would indicate that contestants were chosen at 'random'. I spent hours looking through the atlas trying to find out where
'random' was located. I finally for some reason came to the conclusion that it was somewhere near Rochester.
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 believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather
- When I was a child I used to believe that I was the singer who played on the radio— Gabriela Ortega
- In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari