During one snowy day when we were about 12 years old, my friend revealed to me that he still believed what his mother told him, when he was little, about where snow came from: That snow was actually clouds that fell to earth. I chastised him no end.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.— alex
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G
- My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.— Belle
- My sister told me that snow was God's dandruff.— Erin
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw