My mum used to tell me that I had to keep my room tidy as the Queen checked all children's rooms at random and would be very disappointed to find it messy.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- The lollypop man's job was to give children lollypops.
How disappointed I was when I met one. :DAnon - 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 my mum was the queen. She does look a bit like the queen... minus the orb and sceptre.— Vix
- I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- I believed that teachers lived in rooms above the school gym.— Kelly
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda