I used to believe that when someone said a tornado hit somewhere, I thought it meant that there were huge tomatoes that hit the city.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- when i was little i thought pigs ate only tomatoes because bacon and ham was red when cooked.Anon
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie
- I used to think that the title of Barry Manilow's song "Looks Like We Made It" was "Looks Like Tomatoes".— close2nd