On the way to our camp, my Dad used to tell my brothers and me that if the cows were all standing by the barn it meant that it was going to rain. I actually passed that little tidbit on to two of my sons before learning that he had made it up!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that brown cows made chocolate milk and white cows made regular milk.— andrew mient
- I used to think that "No standing signs" meant that you weren't allowed to actually stand in the area!Anon
- I used to believe that a "senior discount" was for people who named their sons after them selves— Spencer Tew
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- when i was young i used to believe that chewing gum was made out of cows feetAnon