When I was a kid we used to live next to an airforce base in California during the 80's. The 80's being the cold war era, one of my biggest fears was nuclear war... especially with all the made for TV movies on the subject.
Well one night I was awoken by a loud BOOM and a flash of light so bright it seemed like someone turned the all the lights in the house on and off. The booms and flashes continued over and over. Immediately I began to pray in earnest and in a cold sweat.... until I realized it was a thunder storm.
In my defense I had never experienced a thunderstom in my life and it was the worst one on record for that small town.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- I used to believe that I could make a laser by putting more batteries in a flash light.— Tyler
- that coleslaw was cold slaw. Anon
- I used to think the "Cold War" was a war where countries tried to freeze each other to win the war. Anon
- Ever since I was 8, i never ate chili because i thought it ws cold.— James
- I used to believe that the cold war was happening in Siberia or Alaska.— Liam