Road Trips Before Digital Entertainment

"What did y’all do before digital entertainment."?

well, on road trips during the summer without air conditioning with all the windows Manually Rolled Down
at 70MPH (yes, even the 2-lane was 70) we attempted to entice the truck drivers to blow their horns
by sticking our arms out the open windows and giving the "fist pump" jerk signal
 
Burt Gummer said:
My brothers did that to me as a kid. I was the youngest and smallest. Til I got about 15 and was pulling tobacco and throwing hay bales during the summer. They couldn’t touch me then
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Well I think I drew the line the day I blind sided one brother with a 2x4. Later Mom asked where he was. I shrugged and said I don’t know. As he was lying on the basement floor. Other than huge blow ups I had more space after that. Never been one to go half way.
 
Me. said:
Did so many of you really have a "shut up or get hit" policy in the car?!
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Dad was ok with spanking us....and stopping the car if we acted up.....I think we turned out ok.
 
Man, if you think making noise in the car got you a whoopin', try "I'm going to shift gears for you while you're driving"

I got Audubon Field Guides, books about insects and fish, local guidebooks, tide charts, etc to look at and read. I was an odd kid. I think everybody else played "The Animal Game", wherein you name an animal with which the first letter of their name if the last letter of the previous animal, but I always won by naming some obscure animal that would end in a fight.
 
premise said:
Man, if you think making noise in the car got you a whoopin', try "I'm going to shift gears for you while you're driving"

I got Audubon Field Guides, books about insects and fish, local guidebooks, tide charts, etc to look at and read. I was an odd kid. I think everybody else played "The Animal Game", wherein you name an animal with which the first letter of their name if the last letter of the previous animal, but I always won by naming some obscure animal that would end in a fight.
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A fellow oddball! I used to keep a Webster's dictionary under my bed when I was a kid, at the ready for some "light" reading. I still can't look anything up in a dictionary (of any type) because I get distracted and end up in a reading marathon!
 
Comedy cassette tapes.....Jeff Foxworthy, Jerry Clower, Jay Hickman, Gene Tracy, etc....
 
kcult said:
We held our breaths going over bridges. That's about it.

It wasn't really a game, but my mom made the mistake of telling me my step dad couldn't stand anything touching his Adam's apple. That's why he always wore v-neck shirts. On that trip, I reached from the back seat and pressed it with my finger. He made this God awful gagging noise and nearly wrecked the car.

It took every ounce of pleading my mom had to keep him from beating me severely. I must have been 10 or 11 at the time.
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LOL
 
We did a road trip up to Maine a couple years ago. I made the boys notebooks with each state and it’s respective info. Like flag, bird, animal, flower, etc. also had travel bingo, license plate search, and some other games. When we got to Maine there we’re journal pages to document the weather, what we did, their favorite part of the day, and draw a picture of something.

They stuck with it about 80%.

If you’re good at planning you can think ahead and get “real” books made at Shutterfly instead of 3-hole notebooks. Makes it more real-er.
 
I swear that without even leaning back, my fathers arm could reach every corner of the big ole Ford Country Squire station wagon. Bip! Settle down...
With all of us in there, there wasn't room to duck, so we were generally well behaved on most car trips.
 
We used to play "20 questions".

I remember my Grandmother telling me how to play the animal graveyard game @Chdamn was talking about, but I always thought the game was pointless. There are a ton of small church graveyards all over rural Wilkes and Surry counties so there was no real point in playing until the last half a mile of any trip.
 
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