I ued to believe that Random - as in 'names were picked at random' - was a place. I thought there was one place where all competion entries went to be picked.
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
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I heard the song about Heaven being a place where nothing ever happened and thought, "What a boring place."Anon
- i used to believe that random people would win a pulit-surprize.— timmy
- I used to believe that flea markets were a place people sold fleas, or the place was infested with fleas— Kelley
- I thought if i picked my nose too many times, my head would blow up.— i m a moron