When I was little and it would thunder. My grandma would say it was angel in heaven bowling. If it was lighting it was a spare and thunder was a strike.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- I used to believe that thunder happened when God was bowling. Lightning meant he made a strike!Anon
- Thunder was my dead uncle in heaven playing a round of bowling with God.— Mike
- When I was little my dad told me when ever it thundered it was my Grandma bowling a strike.Anon
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- I used to think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli