weather

When I was little, and not so little, I used to think that when people were saying wind chill factor they were saying windshield factor. It made sense to me; afterall, I imagined the weathermen taking the temperature of the windshield as the wind was hitting it to determine the actual temperature outside.

skw

I used to think that when you saw a rainbow there would be a little green leprechaun sitting there with a pot of gold, and if you tried to steal the gold he would push you into the rainbow and your body would get boils and burn to death...

Martin

I believed that when I was little that if you ate a piece of a cloud that floated down into your bowl of soup that it would taste like a marshmellow and that you'd slowly float back up in the sky

Vicki

I used to believe that where the sun peeks out from the clouds was where heaven was found.

Emily

I used to think that when it rained wherever I was, it rained all over the world at the same time. I also used to think that all the tv shows were live.

Chrissie

I used to believe that at night, the weather slept at night. That was the only thing that got me to sleep because I was around 5 at the time and I was scared of thunderstorms at that age. I learned the truth when a thunderstorm came at night. I asked my mom why the thunderstorm was up late at night. He he.

Anon

once i asked my uncle what clouds were made of. i always asked him because i thought he was the most intelligent. up until a 2nd grade hiking trip i believed that clouds were made of cotton candy. imagine my dissappointment when i got to the top and couldn't eat the cloud.

Jenn

I used to believe when driving at night through the fog, that the patches of fog were ghosts. I thought that until high school.

Anon

When I was younger, I thought that snow days when school was canceled it was so all the kids could have a good time and play outside in the snow... it did not occur to me that it was because the cars could not drive on the icey roads... heh heh...

Anon

When I was about the age of 3, I was deathly afraid of leaves. Whenever my mom took me to the supermarket I'd start shrieking and be really freaked out, because I didn't understand the blowing wind was moving the leaves, I thought they were actually alive and wanted to get me.

Nick

I used to believe that it only snowed on grass because when I woke up in the morning all the streets and sidewalks were already plowed and shoveled

Vickie

Until I was a teenager, I believed that rain made worms came out of driveways.

Marc

I used to believe that every cloud was a different country

Christina

When I was 4 my brother and I used the garden hose for hours, spraying the sidewalk, trees, etc. My dad got mad at us for wasting water and since storm clouds were gathering, for some reason he told us that we had "made it rain." Until age 10 I firmly believed that spraying the water into the air had caused the clouds to form and caused the resultant rain, and I didn't completely let go of this belief until about age 15.

Derek

The clouds were really the images, animals and people I imagined them to be

lilhurricane

I used to believe that if you stood on top of a snowbank for long enough, you'd sink down right into the ground!

Brandy Lynn

I used to tell my sister that the equator didn't move with the Earth, but the Earth moved and the equator would pass over it, and that's why it was so hot in summer. She believed me for a few years.

Drea C.

Trains ran past the Hudson River that I lived near as a boy-- they still do, in fact. I always used to think that clouds were a product of pollution-- that the trains puffed smoke and steam, which stayed up in the sky to form clouds. I asked my mum about this, and she agreed with me.

I at the time was very proud of myself-- I'd figured out a force of nature, and was thereby smarter than all of the kids in my class. When my teacher asked said class about clouds-- and what they were, I immediately raised my hand and stated my theory on cloud production.

Needless to say, I didn't believe her for the longest time, 'cos my mum told me I was right.

Anon