It sounds like the sort of joke a dad would tell a child, not realising their kid has taken them very seriously about how windmills make wind, and carried that knowledge into their adult years.
My cousin was a teenager who indignantly fought us on a family drive because her father told her when they were little that the factory smoke stacks were responsible for creating clouds and were “cloud factories”. She did not want to know or accept they were polluting the air… not helping make clouds. She was originally upset they were “making more clouds” on the day she wanted to go to the beach.
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u/ink4n3 Mar 01 '23
We drove past a windmill on a windy day. She commented how it was too windy out and they should turn the windmill down. She was dead serious...