Yeah, the first time I ever heard that was, weirdly, in Lilo & Stitch. I had no idea what “punch buggy” meant and had to look it up. It wasn’t a thing at all in Ohio, I guess. We just yelled JINX!, but it didn’t have any consequences.
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Slugbug, never played that. Padiddle on the other hand, lead to occasional bruising.
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I’d never heard of padiddle until my spouse mentioned it as a childhood pasttime.
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When coming to a highway overpass one must wet one’s finger, place it on the top of their head and say “Duck!”
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Maybe we were just fond of punching each other.
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Damn you!
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As kids, we were allowed to play slugbug, but only if there was no actual slugging. But, we like the alphabet game better, even though we always had to wait for a liquor store by the freeway for the Q.
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No antique stores on the route?
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We were in LA county, so none that I recall. In fact, I may have never gotten to the swanky parts of LA where there are antiques, unless you count extremely good luck days at the goodwill.
(edit for word order, doh!)
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…and now you’re gonna have to say what “padiddle” is.
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Something about going over the railroad tracks…
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Whatever the hell that is, I know precisely one guy who does it. He’s never explained it sufficiently, and I guess he has other pals to do it with, but since we grew up having different 3rd-grade classes, somehow our cultures didn’t intersect in this particular department.
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Actually, it’s a car with one headlight out. Everyone knows you touch the roof of the car when you go over railroad tracks. DUH!
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My first wife and her sisters had a bunch of rituals that were new to me, though we grew up a handful of miles apart. It’s from them I learned “slugbug.” They also always held their breath when driving through a tunnel.
In my family, on long car trips, whoever first spotted an off-white horse had to yell “Zip!” God knows why that word. And god knows why actual white horses were excluded.
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You’re right, now I remember! The railroad tracks thing was something else…
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I think you had to lift your feet too, if I remember correctly. (With the railroad tracks.)
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We used to smack the car’s ceiling with the palms of our hands while going over the tracks.
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So when calling “shotgun” before getting into a car, were we the only kids that followed by calling “secondary” and “tertiary”, or was that actually a thing?
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We would always hold our breaths while driving across state lines so that we’d bring some of one state’s air into another.
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I want an Aquaman movie. I’m not kidding. He was my favorite superhero when I was a kid dreaming of being a marine biologist.
@Mindysan33 The Sarah Jane Adventures didn’t have enough K-9.
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