When I was little, my parents told me that if I walked around barefoot during a storm I would get struck by lightning. I still make sure I always have somthing on my feet when there's a storm, just in case.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that squinting in a storm would make you cross-eyed... forever.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when there was a storm it was because God was angry.— Raul
- I always thought thunder was the sound of the crumbling buildings, after lightning had struck them.Anon
- I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.— Lou
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim