Growing up, our neighbor had two small, white stone statutes in her yard, a squirrel and a dog.
One day I was playing the role of Smarter Older Sister and telling my 9-year-old brother about acid rain. "Know those animals in Mrs. Daniels's yard?" I said. "They would still be alive today if they had had the sense to come in out of the acid rain."
He was 11 before he realized how full of shit I was.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- 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
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- I used to think that if someone gave you acid, you could completely counter the effects by taking an antacid.— abracadaver