My dad listens to rock, so he used to tell me that when it thundered, it was God bowling against the sinners. You know, like the song. Angels and sinners play every day, every night. To this day I don't understand the true meaning of that song.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- I used to believe the the Elton John song, "Crocodile Rock" was about a Crocodile, named Rock.Anon
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- in sting's / the police's song ''roxanne''. I thaught that it was ''rock sand''— wacko zacho
- I thought that the song "Built this City" by starship went as follows. "Milk and Cereal, Rock and Roll"Anon