I thought that if you wet the ground with a garden hose or sprinkler, it would make it rain.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- 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 thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- I used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon
- I thought Busch Gardens was a public garden owned by George W. Bush.Anon