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).
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie
- I used to believe a tornado was a omato flying around and wondered why people were afraid of them.Anon
- I used to believe that tornadoes were spinning jack-o-lanterns in the air bent on destroying my house.Anon
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore