weather

I was about 6-- After I saw the movie Mary Poppins, I thought that people really could fly if they held an umbrella in the wind.

One day there was a storm, with a lot of wind rattling the windows. I argued with my mother for what seemed like HOURS, to let me go outside with an umbrella and fly.

Me

When i was about 4 or 5 i used to believe that i could change the weather as my parents would ask me to sing a 'sunny song' which would bring the sun out. i remember once sitting at the bottom of the stairs in a mood because i was fed up with their requests and didnt want the responsibility anymore.

liz

When it rained where you were, it was raining all over the world.

Lauren

I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be. I wasn't sure why their psychic powers sometimes didn't work though

Mephisto

i thought fog had something to do with frogs

Anon

I grew up in Indiana, where it was rather cold in the winter time. I was about 4 or 5 when I heard on the radio about the wind chill factor. I didn't understand the term and remember asking my mom one day why keep telling us the temperature at the wind shield factory.

Anon

I used to believe that clouds represented recently deceased animals. If I looked at the sky and saw clouds that looked like for example a rabbit, I'd be 100% sure that a rabbit had just died. I also thought that the white clouds were happy and died a normal death, while a darker cloud was angry and had maybe been killed by something else.

Brian

When I was little, I believed that it was someone's job to hoist the sun up into the sky, and someone else's job to climb a really big ladder to hang up the clouds. Since sometimes there were no clouds in the sky, I assumed that person didn't go to work. I was always worried the man who hoisted the sun wouldn't go to work one day, and it would be dark when I woke up.

Deborah

We learned in about 1st grade that clouds were made of water vapor. We also learned that water vaporizes at 212° F. I put 2 and 2 together and believed that clouds were scorching hot. One day while riding in the car through dense fog, i asked my mom what fog was made of. She said it was basically a cloud on the ground. I wondered how we'd get out of the car without being burned.

Jamie

There is large factory in the largest city near my hometown that has an impressive smokestack. When I was little, I thought that the factory was where clouds came from.

Anon

When I was a kid I thought that when it rained, it rained all over the world.

Anon

When I was very young, I thought snow came out of street lights. Which, in theory makes sense; I couldn't see it until it fell below the light. I didn't know why they "snow lights" only worked for part of the year, though...

Frosty the confused

I believed you could sit on clouds.

Anon

I used to believe that weather forecastors decided what the weather would be. When they forecasted rain for my area i thought they were delibrately being mean!!!

Michael A.

My parents encouraged us to call sun cream/ sun screen - 'SunSHINE cream!'.

Adorable when you're 4 but I didn't realise they'd added the ' shine' part until university.

Even now its really hard for me to just say sun cream... the other way is ingrained.

Anon

When I was little, I thought a tornado was a "torn 'mato" and imagined a giant killer tomato with torn garments flying behind it like streamers as it raged through town.

khaos

when I was a little girl thunder really scared me. Mum always told me the rumbling noise was Saint Peter dragging his furniture. One day I said that he must have a lot of furnoture because hi didn't stop making noise. She start to laugh and I remember I got angry. Even today storms with thunder and lightning frigten me.

Isabel

I belief that when i was raining, it was because i was crying, and if i wasn't crying, I though some one else it was crying on the world.

Eric Morales Badillo

I used to believe that snow on the ground was clouds that were too tired to fly.

alex

I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain!

Cris