When I heard on the news that some on was shot at gunpoint, I thought "Gunpoint" was a place; I wondered why people kept going to Gunpoint.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.Anon
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley