Surely people of a certain age (e.g. 70+) will remember the game Padiddle.
12 thoughts on “POTD: Padiddle”
Carol
Actually, I’d never heard of the game until today’s POTD. The Almighty Google has now enlightened me. Too bad I didn’t know about it when I was young and we drove to Sterling most weekends. We could have added it to our repertoire of things to do on what seemed like long (half hour) rides.
Was slug bug a thing back then? I don’t remember many VWs on the Kansas roads when I was a kid. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t there. We sang rounds with our mom and fought over who crossed the center line on the seat for our entertainment.
Definitely a thing back then, at least for those of us living in the “big city.” I probably had to give up slug bug for good by the time I went to high school and one of my good friends drove a blue VW bug. But fighting for seat space in the back of the family car has got to be the most universal road trip entertainment activities there is.
Hmmm, Padiddle must not be as common a thing as I thought it must be. I’d say it may be regional but then Carol (my cousin) lived very near my family when we were kids.
Yay, score one for the Padiddle aware! Nelson, NV is the perfect tourist trap for folks like me–plenty of oddities to contemplate (and photograph of course).
You can count me as an under 50 who knows the padiddle reference. Now I’m going to have to go with familial effects, given you probably learned it from your mom who I certainly played the game with back in the day.
Actually, I’d never heard of the game until today’s POTD. The Almighty Google has now enlightened me. Too bad I didn’t know about it when I was young and we drove to Sterling most weekends. We could have added it to our repertoire of things to do on what seemed like long (half hour) rides.
Yes, those long half hour rides must have been tediously boring. 🙂 Did you at lest know how to play Slug Bug?
Was slug bug a thing back then? I don’t remember many VWs on the Kansas roads when I was a kid. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t there. We sang rounds with our mom and fought over who crossed the center line on the seat for our entertainment.
Definitely a thing back then, at least for those of us living in the “big city.” I probably had to give up slug bug for good by the time I went to high school and one of my good friends drove a blue VW bug. But fighting for seat space in the back of the family car has got to be the most universal road trip entertainment activities there is.
Sorry, that is a new one for me. I am 79 by the way.
Hmmm, Padiddle must not be as common a thing as I thought it must be. I’d say it may be regional but then Carol (my cousin) lived very near my family when we were kids.
🙋 I do know about the one headlight padiddle game. Guess that ages me. 😉 Nelson, Nevada looks like an interesting place.
Yay, score one for the Padiddle aware! Nelson, NV is the perfect tourist trap for folks like me–plenty of oddities to contemplate (and photograph of course).
You can count me as an under 50 who knows the padiddle reference. Now I’m going to have to go with familial effects, given you probably learned it from your mom who I certainly played the game with back in the day.
Well, I’m beginning to think my theory about age is quickly being disproved. My ideas about geography aren’t panning out well either.
I know about padiddle. Learned from my mother where I grew up in the Midwest.
I think you scored in both the age and regional categories, and the familial idea I just introduced as well!