We were driving to Florida for Christmas, and I knew it was warm there. I thought there was an actual line where the snow stopped, and the sun and grass began. I was very disappointed to see that it got warmer gradually as we drove South.

me again

When I was about 4, we lived in an area that was known for severe weather and even tornadoes. During the stormy season we would sleep in the kitchen, which was the center of our house and had no windows. Somehow I misunderstood and heard tormadoes and thought that a giant, vicious, huge tomato with enormous teeth dripping of green slime would come screaming at your house and rip it to shreds trying to find little girls to eat. I suppose I had a bit of an over active imagination... Now I know what tornadoes are (some reason not so scary) and like to tell the story to my nieces and nephews.

Andrea

Among many many things my parents led me to believe, the two that stick out most in my mind is that it only rained when I was bad (I always found myself trying to remember what I had done when it would start to rain). And the best one, you get canker sores in your mouth from telling a lie. I have managed to keep these "tales" in the family and passed them on to my children! HA!

Heidi - IL

I use to believe Smog and Fog were the same thing on smog was darker

Anon

In Venezuela, kids are told that when it rains but it's sunny at the same time, it is because God and the Devil are fighting

Jhex

when i was a child i used to curse when it used to rain when i was on my way to school. the explaination my mother gave me for the rain was that god and his angels were doing the washing and the rain was when the water spilled out of the bath on them. funny enough i have passed it on to my children since. it is a nice idea though.

angel

I used to believe that when it rained it was raining everywhere in the world

Odette

I don't know how young I was when I thought I learned this, but up until very recently, I thought it had to be exactly 32 degrees F. in order for it to snow. That, and if it goes below 32 degrees, it's too cold to snow.

Li A

my gran told me that when there was thunder, god was having his coal bunker filled; when there was lightning, god was opening his fridge; and when it rained, god was taking a shower.

obviously, this led to me constantly looking out for large lumps of coal, food and soap falling from the sky!

lise

When i was younger i used to believe the clouds were God's drawings. I used to make out animals in the shapes of the clouds. I still do actually.

traq

One day in kindergarten my teacher was going over tornado safety with us. One kid mistakenly said that you should go outside during a tornado. The teacher corrected her and said, "No, then you end up just like Dorothy" (from The Wizard of Oz). For the longest time after that I thought that tornadoes carried people to Oz instead of killing them (luckily I had no desire to go to Oz or my parents would've had problems-then again, we never had any tornadoes).

L

When I was about 5, I used to believe that it rained because god was crying. I used to pray to him and try to cheer him up. HA!

Mel

When I was about 6 years old, I thought that the clouds were formed from the tops of smoke stacks. I wondered how they then got so white and I was told by a friend that God bleached them once they came out.

Guilible

Whenever the weather person talked about the "wind chill factor" on the news, I always thought they said "windSHIELD factor." (hey, it DOES sound like it.) So for the longest time I thought someone was out there measuring how cold it got on their windshield as they were driving.

Kristin

when i was like 5,i asked someone why the sun was shining but there was rain coming down(i thought rain only came when it was dark)anywayz,that retard told me that god was taking a shower...:P

god takes showers!!!

When I was little, when I see clouds on the sky go in front of the sun and block the sunshine, I used to think thr sun has to give sunshine to some other countries so not only my country gets all the sunshine. When the clouds move and the sunshine comes back, I thought the sun had gone around the world giving every country some sunshines. I stopped thinking this when I learned about time differences in Geography.

Annie Lo

When I was little, I used to believe that God had a laboratory in heaven where he controlled the weather. He would concoct different potions that would make different types of weather--rain, snow, sun, wind, etc.--and he would just pour them onto earth, and that was how weather was created. I used to believe he spent all day in the lab just creating weather.

Nicola

I used to believe that it rained when God was upset and that all the birds lived together in one big house.

Rozy

the scientific mind i was ...the rain falling in drops got me thinking. i figured out the solution though..gods must have a sheet with holes laid, over which they poured water in buckets...ths the rain for you.

aks

when i was younger i used to think that when the snow was on the ground that that is what made it cold and i always would hope that the snow would melt so it would be summer again

Pogo