When I was little, whenever a storm came, I'd always stay inside and run around like a maniac.
One night we were going through a particularly bad storm. Tired of my antics, my grandmother told me that movement attracts lightning. So, I believed that if I moved in the slightest way, I'd get electrocuted.
Even today, more than a year after she died, I still sleep or read during a storm, and avoid getting up!
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when there was a storm it was because God was angry.— Raul
- I believed that those who died would be resurrected a year later.— crow
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- My Grandmother once told me she could unscrew her feet. I believed that for years.— Andy Bettison