When I was very young, I asked my mother what thunder was, and to this day (I'm 38) I still picture this when it thunders:
"It's God playing with his marbles."
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- i used to believe that when there was thunder and lightning god was playing bowling at a disco— georgia
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- Thunders are created because of the collision of cloudsAnon
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn