Sharing my secrets. I don’t talk about my family. I love them, obviously (hell, I live with my sister by choice), I just don’t really share that part of my life with people. I guess that kind of makes it a secret. So yeah, I’m going to share a story about my family in the form of a work of narrative fiction. (Story time!)
We went on a lot of road trips when I was a kid. We even drove all the way to Walt Disney World in Orlando once. And all the way up to Niagara Falls. So I don’t know if you know this but a twelve hour car ride with four kids can get not-fun really quick. My mom, the wise woman she was, knew this and always had fun things to distract us. We would sing songs, listen to audio books, play card games, and play car games. Car games were always a favorite, especially with my brothers. We would play I Spy, searching for what seemed like hours for a McDonalds sign or a red car or whatever, when in reality we probably didn’t try for more than fifteen minutes before getting bored or distracted. We would play Cows (the person who saw the most won) but that always ended in arguments and yelling so dad wasn’t really a fan of that. The favorite though, our all time favorite car game is actually something we still play jokingly to this day: “punch-buggy no punch back”. The goal of the’game’ was to be the first to see a Volkswagen Beetle and then yell out “PUNCH-BUGGY NO PUNCH BACK” and punch the person or persons closest to you. Now I don’t know where we learned this particular form of sibling violence, certainly not from our parents, who strongly disapproved of us punching each other. We, of course, loved it because it was a minimum-repercussions form of revenge. If we were angry at one of the other kids we could do this knowing that according to the game rules, they couldn’t hit us back. Of course they then tried that much harder to find the next Beetle so they could ‘get back’ at their original puncher. We were secretly quite vindictive and would sometimes hit each other quite hard when playing this ‘game’. It sometimes ended in tears and time outs, but somehow we all still love each other and like going on road trips together.
I seriously have no idea where I was going with this. like, yay, happy ending, but is it a good ad? I don’t even know how I would make this into an ad.. I do know though that it relates to the ‘everyday motoring pleasure’ theme though. To this day I still look back on family road trips with nostalgia and even though the game wasn’t as much of a thing in our family as in the story, we do still play it.(See, I know THAT would be a better idea than the weird fake story because it’s genuine. Maybe that should be my idea instead. It was kind of where I started with it too and I just got muddled when I tried to add detail.)
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