weather

The clouds used to make a terrible noise sometimes as they moved overhead. I thought they were grinding against each other. It was very loud because the clouds were so big.
But it was just the noise of planes... which look so small when you look at them in the sky that I didn't believe it when I was first told.

Anon

I used to think that the numbers next to the cities on the weather map we codes which described a particular weather configuration. It took me a while to realise it was actually just the temperature. I over complicated some things as a child...

DB

Quote from my dad: "If it rains while the sun is shining it means the devil is beating his wife behind the door". I *still* don't know what it means.

An American from the Southeast

i used to think when it is raining, God is urinating. When it's snowing, God's pooping.

peterio

When I was a sprog, I used to think that Rainbows were painted in the sky by magic fairies

Jojo

My dad used to go and shovel the driveway, and when he came back, he had lollypops. He insisted that they were "snow pops", and they fell in the wintertime. It took me a surprisingly long time to stop believing that. A part of me wishes I still did believe it.

Christopher

My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.

Belle

If you stepped on a Beetle, it would rain.

jez

Rain contained snail eggs...mmmm

klaus

That when God emptied a bath it rained.
Also that raining "cats and dogs" actually rained cats and dogs.

Sarah, UK

I used to believe that when it rained God was peeing on the world.

Marguerite

I used to believe that if black people went out in the snow and rolled around they would turn white - so whenever it snowed I never went outside in case it happened to me!

Collette

Coming from Derbyshire there are a few weird and wonderful sayings. My mother used one when the weather looked bad. 'It looks black ovver Bill's mothers', she would say. This had nothing to do with Bill's mother off course but being young and impressionable I always wondered why the weather was crap over just one poor sods house.

Phil V

I was certain that rain was created by God having a pee and flushing his huge toilet above us

Emma H

That all clouds were made by aeroplane exhaust fumes

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