“Pay attention and stay awake”
Mrs. Noodle and I used to take a lot of road trips; we’d do crossword puzzles between audiobooks, where she would read out the clue, number of letters and any crossings.
Also, “Don’t crash into the oncoming traffic” and “Watch out for that moose” are long time favorites of mine.
The licence plate game. I-spy. Slug bug.
Was going to say Slug Bug. Not sure you can play this game nowadays. Kids would fall asleep before spotting the Bug.
“What’s that smell?”
How do you play that?
I make sure that the windows are all up and locked, then I fart silently and ask anyone if they can smell petrol
Of course, everyone immediately sniffs deeply
Hilarious for all
Not cow manure or alfalfa?
I only throw cow shit at Musk apologists
How many have you done that to?
As many as I can, but it’s less cowshit and more punches given that I live in the city
A guy I used to work with was spouting off some shit from the passenger seat of the vehicle I was driving about how the sig heil was fine, and people were just being “too PC”, so I punched him in the mouth without even taking my eyes off the road
That put the little neo-nazi pussy back in his corner
What did he do to you?
Supercross Freestyle on Gameboy Color!
The cow/graveyard game, finding signs that start with each letter of the alphabet, finding license plates from the most states, punch buggy of course, and if my parents were pissed off the silent game was enforced.
But NEVER counting the number of cars you see. That was bad luck.
I’d wait until the driver was oblivious to me (in the back seat) and make strange noises with my mouth/nose/whatever and try to get the driver to think something suddenly went wrong with the car. It’s a game of subtlety that got me through many a road trip.
Most recently, spot the car that isn’t black, white, grey, blue or red.
Commercial vehicles don’t count. Gold/bronze gets 1 pt; yellow gets 2 or 4 if it isn’t a sports car; pink gets 4; dark/british racing green gets 4 or 8 if it isn’t vintage; any other type of green gets 6.
We were making this up at the time. That’s as far as we got.
We have played the legs game occasionally, but not much fun on motorways.
And “Horse” from Eagle vs Shark. You win the round when you see a horse and say “horse”.
20 Questions. It was always the most thought-provoking. Very few other people found it fun though that I’d always win.
