When i was little, my dad would tell me that when it thundered that my grandma had just bowled a strike in a game of bowling with the angels! :) He told me that she loved bowling when she was alive and that it thundered so much cuz when she played she was wicked good!
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
- My Grama always told me that thunder was just God bowling and the lightning was when he got a strike!— Kim
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I used to believe that thunder happened when God was bowling. Lightning meant he made a strike!Anon
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony