weather

Growing up, our neighbor had two small, white stone statutes in her yard, a squirrel and a dog.

One day I was playing the role of Smarter Older Sister and telling my 9-year-old brother about acid rain. "Know those animals in Mrs. Daniels's yard?" I said. "They would still be alive today if they had had the sense to come in out of the acid rain."

He was 11 before he realized how full of shit I was.

Donna

Brown or otherwise non-white snow was snowman poop. My kids believe it too!

Dellio

I used to believe that if it was raining and the sun is outside it's because a witch was getting married.

Jessica

I used to think that clouds were solid, and that if I could find a ladder tall enough, I could go sit on top of one. I told my mom my theory, and was dissapointed to find out that it'd never work.

One who dreams of sitting on clouds

When I saw that the clouds were moving in the sky, I thought it was because of the rotation of the earth.

Anon

When I lived in San Francisco as a child, I asked my aunt why the fog horns blew every night and she told me they used them to blow the fog off the Golden Gate Bridge! I was able to go to sleep comforted by that thought.

Dorie fox

when my cousin first learned the water cycle he told me about evaporation, and told me that was when the water on the ground suddenly flew up into the air and that i was too small so i would be sucked up with it, and he told me that if this happened he would have to tackle me and hold me down..so i went on for years fearing that one day it would rain up instead of down and some random guy would tackle me and hold me down so i didn't fly into the clouds

Tim

My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns.

Daughter of the Weird

I grew up in Florida and my grandparents lived in NY. I always loved the snow so my grandfather told me that he would send me a snow ball. Weeks later I recieved a moth ball in a babyfood jar labeled 'snow ball'...I believed for YEARS that it was a snow ball.

Gatorgrl

When I was 4 or 5 I used to think that the wind came from trees, that somehow, the trees were moving and fanning the earth... My mom had to explain that it was the other way around.

Rose

I used to believe that thunder and lightning was caused not by the discharge of electicity from the clouds to the ground, but rather it was caused by dragons fighting

Steve

When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.

Not In Kansas Anymore

I used to believe that the clouds moving was caused by the spinning of the Earth... that the clouds stayed in one spot.

Anon

I used to believe planes going through clouds are what made it rain. I was really disappointed to see no rain or thunder the first time I remember being on a plane.

Paola

My dad told me fog was just clouds sleeping. and some of them were lazy and fell asleep right on the road. I always felt a little sad when we ran over them :[

Victoria

I used to believe that the softest bed in the world was one giant cloud that was shaped like a bed, but you had to be careful when you slept on it because if you got too comfortable you might fall through.

Anon

When I was little, my grandmother had a weather house. It had two doors. There was a woman in one door and a man in the other. The woman would come out if it was going to be sunny, and the man would come out with his umbrella if it was going to rain. I thought the man made it rain. I slapped him and broke the weather house, screaming "I hate you. Every time you come out it rains!"

Anon

When I was five, I apparently didn't know how weather worked and got mad at my parents for not being able to control it.

Anon

When I first heard weather described as "clement", I had only heard the word as a man's name, so I thought that there was weather for all the names (like "Maurie weather" or "Elaine weather").

Anon

I used to belive that sometimes my grandfather drew the clouds for me.

Anon