When I was little I thought that smokestacks were cloud machines. I was positive that the pollution pouring out of the top was the new clouds being released into the sky and that was how the weather man decided if it would be cloudy or sunny.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- All clouds came from smokestacks.— Paul
- I am sure I can't be the only one, but I thougth smokestacks were where clouds came from. — Cool Site
- I used to believe that cooling towers were really just cloud making machines— Dianne
- I used to believe that the large building/skyscrapers that made smoke were "cloud machines"Anon
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- when i was young i thought god was a cloud, big white fluffy cloud floating around with 2 eyes and a smile. — kerrie