As I used to be very scared of thunder and lightning when I was little, my mum told me it was God moving his furniture around. If a particularly loud rumble of thunder occured I said it sounded like a wardrobe. If a loud clap of thunder was heard I said it sounded like he dropped it.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I remember being told that thunder was just God moving his/her furniture around.— kipperfeet
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- My mum used to tell me that thunder was god re-arranging the furniture.— Dale
- I used to believe thunder was the sound of God rearranging his furniture.Anon
- when i was young i was told that thunder represented god moving the chairs about— lips