During the big hailstorm of '97 I was at my friends place and the roof started leaking, and everyone was rushing around with pots and pans to collect the water, and i thought they had no water to cook with so they were taking the opportunity to collect some!
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- Bird eggs grow on trees, and they have to go and collect them to put them in their nests.— Ulalia
- I used to believe thato to adopt a child you had to collect points from supermarket products...— Linda
- When I asked my dad how bees collect honey he told me that they carry around little tiny buckets. — Shana
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic