I believed there was a town called "Random".
If someone said, for instance, that "the numbers were selected at random," then I thought that they must have been to Random to pick the numbers.
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 numbers had gender, that the odd numbers were boys and even numbers were girls. — Evelyn
- i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.— timmy
- I used to believe there were numbers called "onety" and 'twoty." I thought "twoty-nine" came before twenty.— CC
- I believed that numbers eventually just ended. That they stopped somewhere after 1000.— Jamis
- I used to be terrified of the numbers 18 and 19. I think I thought that when you turned 18 or 19, you die.— Emmy