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In reply to the discussion: What games did you play in long car trips as kids? We use to drive about 10 miles through the woods [View all]clyrc
(2,299 posts)28. I spent a huge chink of my childhood in the car
Um, chunk, not chink. on edit.
My dad was in the military, so we moved a lot, but even when we weren't moving my parents didn't stay home much if they could help it. We played "that's my house" and occasionally "I spy," but we also had this game where one of us started a story and then passed it on to the next person. That game could last a long time. Of course I also played the "stare out the window game", and "fight with my brother and sister game." It's funny when I think about it now- we always had a car full of kids and pets and many times luggage, so stuffed in the car that sometimes I couldn't even sit, I had to lie on top of stuff. Dad would play the "get lost in the middle of nowhere game," or the "OOPS! almost going over the side of the mountain game," which scared me. Once, in California in mid October, he played the "running out of gas in the first blizzard of the season in the mountains when none of us had coats" game. We were moving from South Carolina to Hawaii, and we drove to California with suitcases packed for Hawaii, never thinking it would be so cold in parts of California. We should have figured it out when we were so cold at the Grand Canyon, but oh well.
Oh and one game my dad hated was the "clean up after pet accidents" game. We had one dog who was car sick every time we took him in the car, but we couldn't leave him at home so a clean up job it was. Then there was the time our cat crawled underneath dad's feet when he was driving and she had diarrhea- dad was not amused.
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What games did you play in long car trips as kids? We use to drive about 10 miles through the woods [View all]
applegrove
Jan 2012
OP
My dad was a lot of fun when it came to playtime. A gentle bear of a man. If someone hurt
applegrove
Jan 2012
#2
We used to play "Beetle" where you counted the number of volkswagon beetles you saw. Of course
applegrove
Jan 2012
#6
It was 1/2 an hour on the highway, then half an hour slow on the one lane wide dirt road that
applegrove
Jan 2012
#8
I was a horrible child. The "game" we played in the car was called "The Fed Up Game"...
PassingFair
Jan 2012
#26
We had 25 miles on the highway first then 10 miles on the dirt road. Yes we had rituals too.
applegrove
Jan 2012
#30