Did people really used to punch each other at the sight of a Volkswagen Beetle in traffic?

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Anonymous wrote:Punch bug! Yes, high school class of 93 and we definitely did it.

+1. Punch buggy. It was a light teasing type punch in the arm.

[Anonymous]

Class of 97 here, yes we did it with close friends, siblings, cousins..

[Anonymous]

Punch Bug Red!

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Sure. You say "Punchbuggy [insert color of the VW Beetle you see]" and punch the arm of whomever is sitting by you.

And we also played padiddle.

-NJ in the 70s and 80s.

[Anonymous]

Grew up in Bethesda. Did not do this but B-town was a quiet little town in the 70s and 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not an urban legend.
We definitely did this growing up.

We also played Padiddle....one headlight of a car coming at you and you yelled paddidle and hit the ceiling of the car. As teens it would allow us to kiss someone else in the car.

Yes, I’m from New England and we played both of these games. My DC, 12, plays it now.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we did that. We would yell punch buggy and the color of the car and punch in the arm. I lived in NYC and the suburbs.

You did it to friends and family. You didn't walk up yo strangers and punch them.

[Anonymous]

We did punch it and paddiddle. Grew up in NYC suburbs in the 80s. My kids heard about it (not from me) and apparently their friend group has adapted it to Punch Tesla.

[Anonymous]

Slug bug. We still play, but it’s slim pickins these days. Two punches for convertible.

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Anonymous wrote:LOL…um, yes, if by “people” you mean kids in the backseat, and by “punch” you mean “light tap on the arm.”

This is maybe the most pathetic reach I’ve ever seen trying to make the whole Everything is Sensitive point. And that really is saying something. Stay bothered!

Do you seriously think male relatives delivered "light taps on the arm" ?????

If you think so you are delusional.

[Anonymous]

Okay, anyone here play Monkey Puzzle Tree? Or is that exclusive to Vancouver/my family?

[Anonymous]

OP, you'd really freak at the game where one person balances a pocket comb on their knuckles, and another tries to grab it and scrape it along the knuckles. If the comb drops, the person balancing it gets the tines brought down, hard, on the back of his hand. That game actually got bloody.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not an urban legend.
We definitely did this growing up.

We also played Padiddle....one headlight of a car coming at you and you yelled paddidle and hit the ceiling of the car. As teens it would allow us to kiss someone else in the car.

Yes, I’m from New England and we played both of these games. My DC, 12, plays it now.

We did both in MD and my husband's family did in MA as well. Late 90s graduates.

We played the point game where you assign value to pedestrians and other things you might hit with the car. That one I think was more disturbing.

[Anonymous]

Used to? Still do. My sister is still faster than me even in her old age. One day I'll get her!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grew up in Bethesda. Did not do this but B-town was a quiet little town in the 70s and 80s.

I grew up in Bethesda in the 80s and 90s and we did it.