I remember being firmly convinced that thunder was the angels bowling, lightning was the bowling balls striking each other, and rain was God watering his garden. These were the only explanations that made sense to me back then.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe that when there was thunder and lightning god was playing bowling at a disco— georgia
- 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 think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli