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

[Anonymous]

Slug bug! Yes! then you punch your friend in the leg. It was mostly the guys that would punch each other.
We also did padiddle for seeing another car with one headlight out. Calling it first was good luck

[Anonymous]

Punch buggie! And, yeah, we walloped each other. To the point of bruising. I'm a girl. I have three brothers. It was a different time.

[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.

Same - we did both of these. One of our neighbors had an orange Beetle so my siblings and I punched each other a lot, LOL.

[Anonymous]

Yes! Slug bug!

[Anonymous]

Very popular in the Midwest in the 90s.

[Anonymous]

Yes with friends, a little punch on the arm usually, occasionally on the leg. "Punch buggy no return"

[Anonymous]

Yes! I'm 38. We did this in Los Angeles growing up.

[Anonymous]

Yup! HS class of '87 here. Punch buggy, no punch back! All my kids (now grown) also played it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, punch buggy in the early '90's. This was in New Orleans

[Anonymous]

We counted Herbies on road trips.

[Anonymous]

yup! in the 90s! Then my friend bought one of the new bugs and hit us practically daily.

[Anonymous]

HS Class of '89- yes, we did this! Grew up in NoVA. Like another said, to the point of bruising your arm. My mom didn't allow it but my friends' moms did!

Personally, I'm no fan of it. But hey, those were the times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes - punch buggy! But, as someone said above, with siblings and close friends.

We yelled "Punch bug!" and punched our siblings, and sometimes you'd do it with close friends. Totally normal, have no idea how this would be "offensive."