My mum used to tell me that thunder was Jesus moving the furniture around in heaven to make more room for people, and lightning was god switching the toliet light on and off to tell people to hurry up, as there are not enough toliets for everyone because of all the people.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon
- I remember being told that thunder was just God moving his/her furniture around.— kipperfeet
- I used to believe that when it thundered it was God moving the furniture around up in heaven!— Clare N.I.
- I used to believe nude furniture was ,furniture with pictures of naked people on them.— Bethany Mote
- I used to believe that switching the light on and off was morse code to burglarsAnon