My friend's daughter always thought we were talking about the "windshield factor" She couldn't understand how we could tell how cold it was using a windshield.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- For many years I didn't understand why everyone was talking about the 'youth in Asia' (euthanasia).Anon
- I used to think that boysenberry was poisonberry and couldn't understand whay anyone would want to eat it.Anon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- When I was little, I couldn't understand why people called me a tomBOY, instead of a tomGIRL.— Amanda
- Mom couldn't understand why at dinner time I wanted Chicken Pox.— Kristin
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon