My mum used to tell me that someone was delivering bricks at the top of our road when it thundered!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that thunder was the bricks of our house banging together for some reason.— Ncik
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that when thundered, it was because god was angry— deividi brasil br locao
- I used to believe when it thundered that god was moving his furniture around.— Debra Mcewan
- I used to believe that when it thundered it was God moving the furniture around up in heaven!— Clare N.I.
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony
- My best friend used to believe that when it rain and thundered that God was flushing his toilet. — Jelly Bean