Drabble by Kevin Fagan for July 12, 2020

Ba dum tssh!

“Thank yew! Catch my HBO special, ‘Playgrounds Don’t Play!’”

When i was that age there was no such thing as watching a movie in a car. Even if there was i don’t think i would have watch one. I like looking out the window watching where we were going.

When my brother and I were small boys, our parents used to take us on driving vacations to see the land. They used to get pretty mad at us when we would spend most of the time on the back seat floor reading comic books. LOL!

It was nice to look out the window and read the destination signs, play “Punchbug,” and go up and down the grades like we were on a rollercoaster.

When I was a kid, the big thing on a car trip was to read the Burma Shave. Thankfully a few have returned to Iowa.

Nice to see a rare strip that just features Penny…

Well, at least it stops the “Are we there, yet” questions.

I grew up in New Mexico. My dad’s family lived in Massachusetts, and my mom’s family lived in Kansas. Every other summer we visited one set or the other. And every time my mom insisted we take a different route. LONG drives. . .do you know how much of this country there is to see? LUVED it when I grew up and could take a plane. . .still, crossing the Great Plains or Texas takes the most hours. . .

Are we there yet?

He also missed the “Burma Shave” signs … by 40 years or so.

It was far more interesting when you didn’t do 98% of the drive on interstates. US1 from NY to Florida before 95 was built was amazing.

In the car we played “Punch Buggy”

It probably helped our mental health. A form of forced meditation. Boredom was part of life. Tree-grass-fence-cow-tree-grass-fence-cow-a shack-tree-grass-fence

Ha Ha. You got me! Good one Kevin!

Every summer, New Jersey to Alabama to see the relatives. As we’d get closer to D.C., Dad would start getting madder and madder. The storm clouds would gather. We ALWAYS got lost. He used words in D.C. I never heard the rest of the year.

Wife’s Ram 1500 came with TV, we bought truck used and headsets were still in the bag. We’re retired so we’ll never us it.

Looking out the window is like surround television.

When we left on a trip early in the morning, I used to hope we were the first car on the road or ahead of all the other cars. Sometimes we had to pass a car to be the first or lead car on the road.

What’s the point of family road trips if you don’t watch the scenery?

When we drove across the country (1959) we looked for all the different license plate styles/colors.

Same for my husband, he’s been one for 30 years

We took a trip out west when I was 12, and I am glad I had to watch the scenery! Great vistas!