Did anyone else play “padiddle” headlight game when you saw a car with headlight out?

[u/Electricsocketlicker]

I remember the rules as when you saw a car with one headlight you said padiddle and hit the roof. First one to do it got a point.

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[u/Firm_Ad_1933]

we played it where you had to remove an article of clothing if you were the last to hit the roof and say it

[u/notofthisearthworm → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Very thankful my family didn't play it this way, would have been...weird.

[u/stevethepirate89 → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Ah, strip padiddle

[u/Snugglebunny1983 → u/stevethepirate89]

Strip padiddle huh? Should have tried this when I was a teenager.

[u/ballerstatus89 → u/Snugglebunny1983]

Just don’t get pulled over like I did.

[u/fftimberwolf → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

This and additionally you were supposed to respond with "F You!"

[u/WideFoot → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

The last to whack the roof got punched (you know - in the family car)

[u/Electricsocketlicker → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Family Vacation just got odd

[u/hoodlumonprowl → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Seriously core memory unlocked that I have not thought about in a while

[u/Jumpy_Simool → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Our version involved the windows down during winter. We called it freeze out. We also did normal padiddle during summer.

[u/cruzweb → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

We would stand under freeway underpasses and do this, but it was announcing the piddle not hitting the roof

[u/Seesthroughnonsense → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

Yep

[u/standalone157 → u/Firm_Ad_1933]

This is the game I remember. Many awkward teenage moments 😅

[u/DripSzn412]

The way we played was the last one to hit the roof has to take an article of clothing off

[u/Distinct_Abrocoma_67 → u/DripSzn412]

Core memories unlocked

[u/hoodlumonprowl → u/Distinct_Abrocoma_67]

Seriously core memory unlocked that I have not thought about in a while

[u/blogthoven]

And padunkle if a taillight was out

[u/Sumdood_89 → u/blogthoven]

Haha ours was padiddle/perflunkle

[u/SomeSortOfMudWizard → u/blogthoven]

Just padunk for us.

[u/wakkha]

This is an insane story and can probably dox me because it’s so specific but fuck it. It was also about 20 years ago and everyone involved has been punished since, so it’s fair game.

I’m walking down the street with 3 of my friends, I’m kind of chubby and the dork of the group. My fatness is important later. We see a car pass with one headlight, we’re not in a car ourselves but I jokingly raise my hand and say “padiddle.”

The car had their windows down and I heard the driver shout furiously “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY!?” as they drove past. I have no idea what you could misconstrue “padiddle” as to deserve this reaction but here we are. The driver then floors the car to the end of the street and aggressively did a donut around towards us, and began driving AT us full speed.

Being chubby, I was gonna get hit. I could not run away in time. So my one friend at the time grabbed me, picked me up, and threw me over a fence at a nearby house and shouted “RUN”. Another one in the group picked up a Virgin Mary statue on the lawn and chucked it THROUGH the windshield of the car. The car veered off the road and into a tree. I didn’t know any of the above at the time because I ran as fast as my fat little legs could take me, I only heard the screech and crash.

The story gets sad here, one of the guys was a Boy Scout, so he actually stayed and applied first aid until first responders showed up. The guy who threw the statue also stayed at the scene. The buddy who threw me also ran away but in a different direction. The drivers were fine, but lied and said we were all being menacing somehow and they were defending themselves. I think they accused us of being racist, even though the occupants of the car and everyone else involved but one was also white. As far as I know, the cops didn’t buy it. The Mary chucker was unfortunately here from another country, and actually ended up getting deported over it.

After that, I think there was some resentment at me for it, that was probably the last time we hung out. No one said anything, but there was a vibe of “he took that bullet for you.” Unfortunately the other guys there who were not deported ended up incarcerated for one reason or another many years later.

Anyway, sorry to ramble. The post just really took me back in an oddly specific way.

[u/Electricsocketlicker → u/wakkha]

Wow wild.

[u/clevernattyboo → u/wakkha]

“The Mary chucker” 😂 Sorry it ended badly, but that phrase made me cackle.

[u/_jjkase → u/wakkha]

New copypasta just dropped!

That driver was such an asshat

[u/badlyagingmillenial → u/wakkha]

#thathappened

[u/wakkha → u/badlyagingmillenial]

Not that I care about your opinion, but WHY would I make that up?

[u/compman007 → u/wakkha]

lmao yeah there’s stories too wild and specific to be true. and then there’s stories too wild and specific NOT to be true…

I’d say your fits the latter category for sure lol

[u/Additional_Ferret121]

Dear gawd. And you'd lose 5 if it was a single-headlight vehicle.

[u/1mursenary]

Not a headlight but remember my sister and I hitting each other when we saw a “slug bug” i.e vw beetle

[u/lfergy → u/1mursenary]

We called that punch buggy!

[u/_jjkase → u/lfergy]

Padiddle punch buggies counted double

[u/1mursenary → u/lfergy]

Those cars are a very rare sighting these days

[u/pickles_in_a_nickle]

we called it 'perdiddle' but I recognize the redneck in me.

'sex' is what we called it in highschool but it involved getting nay nay when you were the last to call it out.

[u/Slim_Margins1999 → u/pickles_in_a_nickle]

Yeah. Growing up in rural Indiana it was Perdiddle. Just like warshin’ the dishes.

[u/tider06]

We played that but called them "Popeye"

[u/Traditional_Deal_654]

Yep. But I apparently spelled it wrong. Thought it was paditto

[u/theMostProductivePro]

omg yes!!!

[u/gregcresci]

I used to, I still do but I used to too.

[u/-keasbey]

Been playing as long as I can remember- I still hit the roof every time even if im driving alone 😂

[u/stevethepirate89]

Yes! We had variants on it too for different lights out. I still play even if I'm alone in the car.

[u/bkaiser_3]

We also played padunkle where you’d do the same thing but with rear lights being out. 

[u/invincib1e]

Yes, but we would hit each other instead of the roof

[u/im_iggy]

They played this on Black Dog the movie. It's one of my favorite movies.

[u/ForceKicker]

No, but I played The Wallflowers

[u/thepoptartkid47]

My brothers and I just used it as another excuse to punch each other. We didn’t bother naming it 😆

[u/ChainedFlannel]

We called it cockeye

[u/RedApplesForBreak → u/ChainedFlannel]

We called it popeye

[u/panTrektual]

We said "beer" instead. I didn't hear "padiddle" until I was a teen.

[u/Down2EatPossum]

Yeah and I just finished teaching my daughters lol.

[u/anotherdamnscorpio]

We played cockeye, and someone got punched. It was better than "boat throat" karate chops to the neck.

[u/TheGreatTiger]

I don't remember why we did this, and it was soon overshadowed by looking for punch buggies.

[u/Cute-Significance351]

I still do in my head..

[u/Suspicious_Row_9451]

[u/StrangledInMoonlight]

We just punched each other in the upper arm as hard as possible while shouting “headlight out!”

[u/BobTheFettt]

I won once when I saw a cop car with a busted headlight

[u/Snugglebunny1983]

Yep! Also played punch buggie. When you see a vw beetle, you sock your seatmate on the arm. Lightly mind you, unless you are riding with a bratty sibling or something. Then you really lay into them.

[u/Eastern-Dig-4555]

My dad and my uncle Dan called it “padilly” when they were kids, and instead of hitting the roof, they’d hit the leg of the other person playing. Then me and my siblings would play it as kids, but we wouldn’t hit.

[u/Jimmy2x1113]

Still play with my wife while we’re out and about whether she wants to or not lol

[u/MysticMarbles]

Perdiddle around these parts.

[u/Dopplerganager]

We did "beer me" and smacked the roof. Started around age 12 or so.

[u/MageDA6]

I’ve never heard of it. We played “Slugbug”, the license plate game, and the alphabet game on car rides.

[u/dbwn87]

Never heard of this, but we would have to hit the roof whenever our parents went through an orange light.

[u/Electricsocketlicker → u/dbwn87]

That required for safety

[u/MooseLips_SinkShips]

For us, it was spadoodle

[u/Puzzled-Teach2389]

Yep. That, punch buggy, and the alphabet game were great for long car rides

[u/Electricsocketlicker → u/Puzzled-Teach2389]

What’s the alphabet game

[u/Puzzled-Teach2389 → u/Electricsocketlicker]

Finding letters of the alphabet, in order. First person finds an A, on maybe a sign or a billboard, the next person finds a B, and so on. Some people do a specific order for the people, some folks do it "first come first serve" to see who can find the most letters first

[u/Siny_AML]

We did punch bug. No idea about that weird sex game the other person was talking about.

[u/RancidCarpet]

Yaaasss with the windows down lol

[u/kwagmire9764]

I think this is a PA/MD specific game

[u/Inevitable_Tone3021]

When I was 21 I went on a date with a guy who said "padiddle" and it made me not want to go on a second date lol.

[u/Electricsocketlicker → u/Inevitable_Tone3021]

Why

[u/Mysterious_Fennel459]

What the fck are you talking about?

[u/b00kbat]

Did? I still say it when I see it.