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By *og-Man OP   Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Since there used to be 4 of us with no seatbelts in the back of my dad's escort mark 1 he made up games for us to play on long journeys

It used to take half the day to get to Brittas Bay instead of 45 mins as it is now so he'd allocate a car colour to each of us and we had to count them as they drove on the other side of the road.

What games did others play

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I spy for us before we started beating the shit out of each other for cheating.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

-A good old fashioned song song.

-Who/what am I?

-Last letter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Trying not to puke

I had horrendous car sickness as a kid so journeys were purse torture

And my father would never stop even when I gave him warning so he always got it down his back

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

This has brought back a memory of my Dad's old Wolsey car with six kids piled in. The car was so old it had holes we could see the road. We played a game called Puddle. My mother would say puddles and we would have to lift our feet to not get them wet. We also had the push game trying to make room to squeeze in. This ended up in disaster one day when I pushed my two sisters to make room and they fell out of the moving car and rolled into the ditch. I said nothing and the car kept going!

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By *ed_AliceWoman
over a year ago

Belfast


"Trying not to puke

I had horrendous car sickness as a kid so journeys were purse torture

And my father would never stop even when I gave him warning so he always got it down his back "

I still have horrid car sickness unless I'm driving or sleeping. I'm no craic on a road trip as a passenger. I don't think anyone ever refused to stop to let me out to boke though. (I've repressed the memory if it happened)

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By *ed_AliceWoman
over a year ago

Belfast


"This has brought back a memory of my Dad's old Wolsey car with six kids piled in. The car was so old it had holes we could see the road. We played a game called Puddle. My mother would say puddles and we would have to lift our feet to not get them wet. We also had the push game trying to make room to squeeze in. This ended up in disaster one day when I pushed my two sisters to make room and they fell out of the moving car and rolled into the ditch. I said nothing and the car kept going!"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Trying not to puke

I had horrendous car sickness as a kid so journeys were purse torture

And my father would never stop even when I gave him warning so he always got it down his back

I still have horrid car sickness unless I'm driving or sleeping. I'm no craic on a road trip as a passenger. I don't think anyone ever refused to stop to let me out to boke though. (I've repressed the memory if it happened)"
yup I still have it now unless I drive

Trains and boats are not fun either

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By *iss3BWoman
over a year ago

north down

My son now has us find every letter of the alphabet on number plates and then numbers odd v even.

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By *og-Man OP   Man
over a year ago

somewhere

I have a very large extended family as my mother is from a family of 17

In the 70's there'd be a day trip to a beach in wicklow called silver strand in a convoy of about 10 cars between us all.

We'd stop in Newtownmountkennedy for ice cream and then head off again

One year myself and 2 cousins were left behind as all the adults assumed we were in the other cars

A few hours later my dad came back to find us sitting on the road ouside the post office

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By *oey4somefunMan
over a year ago

Dublin/Drogheda

Yellow reg, first person to see one gets to give the other person a dead leg or arm

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By *ateniteCouple
over a year ago

Youghal

Listening to the oul fellas music....Thin Lizzy, CCR etc.

He also introduced us to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and it terrified us.

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

We used to play "Mini!"

When you saw a mini you had to shout "mini" and whoever saw the most wins.

These were the old style tiny Italian job minis not them fancy new ones.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Since there used to be 4 of us with no seatbelts in the back of my dad's escort mark 1 he made up games for us to play on long journeys

It used to take half the day to get to Brittas Bay instead of 45 mins as it is now so he'd allocate a car colour to each of us and we had to count them as they drove on the other side of the road.

What games did others play "

We used to play that colour game too, also I remember at Christmas time seeing who counted more houses with Christmas tree lights on at their side (we were dead posh so I only have one sibling)

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By *aint_or_SinnerWoman
over a year ago

South County Dublin


"Trying not to puke

I had horrendous car sickness as a kid so journeys were purse torture

And my father would never stop even when I gave him warning so he always got it down his back "

Ditto, travel sick was my middle name - the difference - my father would make me run beside the car on the motorway for fresh air (I did however manage to work as an air hostess for 5 years in my adult years - my mother laughed me out of it when I told her I got the job - I sure showed them )

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By *aint_or_SinnerWoman
over a year ago

South County Dublin

We also played spotting the 2CV, which was called a Duck in Germany. Red you had to kiss someone, blue for a box, yellow for a pinch and green for a slap. With 5 girls in the car we'd be black and blue

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That game in your mind, where you are a little man running along the side of the road, but you can only jump on the dotted white lines in the middle, or jump over gaps where there are gates and entrances along the side of the road

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Used to play car cricket...

You'd look for pubs if the name of the pub was say the golden lion as a lion had 4 legs you'd get 4 runs..

If it was the sun youd lose a wicket...sun has no legs..

Still looking for a pub called the centipede...

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham

Not sure if car cricket would work in ireland..

With so many pubs named after owners .

Then they have 2 legs...lose a wicket at the brazen head..

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down


"We used to play "Mini!"

When you saw a mini you had to shout "mini" and whoever saw the most wins.

These were the old style tiny Italian job minis not them fancy new ones."

I think the minis from the Italian Job (1969 version) were actually the rather rare Cooper S models (in red, while and blue) whereas the standard models seen Irish roads could be more accurately described as Issigonis Minis, after the original designer, Alec Issigonis, who transformed post-war motoring for 'the great unwashed' on these islands.

The game we used to play was spot the priest or nun, either walking or on bicycles, both rarely visible in recent decades, thankfully!

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By *ensualandslow321Man
over a year ago

Tullamore

The rosary on the way up to Dublin, and another one on the way back. Its no wonder I ended up a sinner

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By *og-Man OP   Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Another one we played was guessing the petrol stations....Esso usually won

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down


"Another one we played was guessing the petrol stations....Esso usually won "

Were there not more Texaco and Maxol stations in Ireland?

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By *og-Man OP   Man
over a year ago

somewhere


"Another one we played was guessing the petrol stations....Esso usually won

Were there not more Texaco and Maxol stations in Ireland?"

In the 70's I seem to remember more Esso than any other brand

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By *atherjackhackettMan
over a year ago

Tipperary

We'd pick a colour car and count our cars as they'd pass. That was after an hours fighting for who got red which was always the winner

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Another one we played was guessing the petrol stations....Esso usually won

Were there not more Texaco and Maxol stations in Ireland?"

There were, but now they are a Shell of their former selves

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By *og-Man OP   Man
over a year ago

somewhere


"We'd pick a colour car and count our cars as they'd pass. That was after an hours fighting for who got red which was always the winner "

Be very dull game now...Silver or Black

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By *atherjackhackettMan
over a year ago

Tipperary


"We'd pick a colour car and count our cars as they'd pass. That was after an hours fighting for who got red which was always the winner

Be very dull game now...Silver or Black "

True. Could play an adults version...but pick the make

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne


"This has brought back a memory of my Dad's old Wolsey car with six kids piled in. The car was so old it had holes we could see the road. We played a game called Puddle. My mother would say puddles and we would have to lift our feet to not get them wet. We also had the push game trying to make room to squeeze in. This ended up in disaster one day when I pushed my two sisters to make room and they fell out of the moving car and rolled into the ditch. I said nothing and the car kept going!"

A Wolseley!

Jaysus! You were traveling in a classic!

Great door locks were a staple of their advertising campaign

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By *dfabMan
over a year ago

Dunboyne

Some will remember the game of the kids in the back seats playing Stay The Way You Are.

A challenge when there's 7 or more in the back with no seatbelts, going around an Irish country road bend

My favourite though is a trip where we were allowed sit in the open boot for the last few miles.

We decided to do Hansel & Gretel and threw the A4 sheets we found in boot out liberally, so we could find our way back, from a place my mother knew like the back of her hand.

It was only 5 days later, when we were returning, we realised paper blew away and wasn't much good for retracing steps from the non-existent witches cottage

The day after returning home, we then realised that the big people have different agendas.

That's when my Dad went looking for his sales reports he'd left in the boot of the car!!

Great holiday though

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over a year ago

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By *ORDERMANMan
over a year ago

wrexham


"Some will remember the game of the kids in the back seats playing Stay The Way You Are.

A challenge when there's 7 or more in the back with no seatbelts, going around an Irish country road bend

My favourite though is a trip where we were allowed sit in the open boot for the last few miles.

We decided to do Hansel & Gretel and threw the A4 sheets we found in boot out liberally, so we could find our way back, from a place my mother knew like the back of her hand.

It was only 5 days later, when we were returning, we realised paper blew away and wasn't much good for retracing steps from the non-existent witches cottage

The day after returning home, we then realised that the big people have different agendas.

That's when my Dad went looking for his sales reports he'd left in the boot of the car!!

Great holiday though "

Did you confess...?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me and my sister would spot car registration plates if they were say 123SAW we would have to make up what the last 3 letters were so SAW stock Aiken Waterman or soggy ass wipe was fun

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Game we play (mostly when on a motorway).So basically you start from oldest to youngest in the car and when a car, van, truck whatever passed you if it's your turn that's your car . best and nicest one wins. Fun when someone gets an old banger. Kids love it

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down


"Me and my sister would spot car registration plates if they were say 123SAW we would have to make up what the last 3 letters were so SAW stock Aiken Waterman or soggy ass wipe was fun "

The vehicle registratio number 123 SAW is still on the road to this day, registered to a grey Volvo!

123 SAW

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By *OCONO5Couple
over a year ago

Sensual Center

see yellow reg car...say...yellow reg you cant hit back.... ..box brother or sister..they cant hit you back

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