Slug Bug or Punch Buggy?

Jumper K. Balls wrote:

Tony Sestito wrote: And then there was the "door knob" game, but that one's a bit stinky.

Heh. I used to carry a doorknob in my jacket when I was a kid. Never had to say safety

The worst we ever got someone was back when I was in my old band. We had a kid that came from Albania that played guitar for us. He was still learning English and American customs, and we did a lot of the teaching (and corrupting, for that matter)... poor guy.

One time, we were at our practice space, which was in an old building in a shipyard. He asked us why we kept saying "safety" all the time, and we explained the game. He starts laughing hysterically. We go on with the practice. After we were done playing, he goes "Hey guys!" and lets one rip. We all look at him, as he just sits there laughing, and then we all yell DOOR KNOB!!! He starts scrambling, looking for a door knob.

Now, you see, the beauty of this is our old practice space was in an old machine shop building with cheaply built-out rooms. All the doors were very basic, and secured by padlocks. And NO DOOR KNOBS.

He ran out of the building and bolted a quarter mile down the road to find another building that had an exterior door with a knob.

Welcome to America!

Duke wrote: We usually called them Punch Buggies, but Slug Bug was not unknown. The worse problem was padiddles. Where I grew up if you were sitting next to a person of the opposite sex, you kissed on a paddidle. Where my wife grew up, you slapped the other person. Our first few encounters were confusing and painful.

OK I just spit out a sip of bourbon.... Thanks for that

Slug Bug here. We had some term for paddidie but it wasn't that, can't remember what it was.

Punch bug. Bididdles were unrelated and just something we said but didn't involve hitting.. Until this thread it never even occurred to me that the game could be played using water cooled cars.

I learned slug bug. I think there was a rule about calling the color or calling no slug-backs or something. I also played punch-buggy with those so indoctrinated.

We also played padiddle, but in my country-ass small town I always thought it was per-diddle. Which lends credence to my adult idea that padiddle is actually a corruption of the Spanish "perdido." (A stretch, no doubt, but I find it droll.)

There was also a thing we did as teenagers where you had to punch the headliner if you crossed an intersection on a yellow light for good luck or something.

If two people said the same thing at the same time it was a goocher and you had to lock pinkie fingers. If you did't call goocher it could also be "pinch poke you owe me a Coke."

johnnie wrote: If two people said the same thing at the same time it was a goocher and you had to lock pinkie fingers. If you did't call goocher it could also be "pinch poke you owe me a Coke."

We had a version of that! We called it "Jinx".

If two people said the same thing at the same time, one person or the other had to call out Jinx and the other person couldn't talk until someone said their name. If they talked, they would get punched. If someone was being a real jerk, they could call "Jinx Personal" and then only the person who called Jinx could say the person's name. That sucked.

Punchbuggynopunchback! IIRC, the last person in the car to call 'no punch back' got hit. Slug bug was known, but not common.

Padiddle was fun. We played where all occupants had to hit the roof of the car and the last person to do so removed an article of clothing. We only ever seemed to play when girls were around, wonder why that was?

Definitely knew door knob. A college friend introduced me to the similar game of calling farts. Basically you get a point for saying "call it" when someone farts. Obviously the responsible party is at a distinct advantage

Also knew jinx you owe me a Coke. I could probably drink free soda for the rest of my life if I ever managed to collect on all those debts.

We also had Jinx. And "two for flinching".