strip "pididdle," anyone?

[Clark Whelton]

In 1953 I got my first kiss courtesy of a passing padiddle. It was
definitely a kissing game then, at least in Connecticut.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice Faber" <faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: strip "pididdle," anyone?


> Duane Campbell said:
> >On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:39:20 -0500 Richard Gage <rgage at INTRAH.ORG> writes:
> >> PIDIDDLE: a car with one functioning headlight.  Also, a roadtrip
> >> game
> >> that
> >> rewards the player who spots the pididdle first.  In my father's
> >> day,
> >> the winner
> >> got a kiss.
> >
> >I apparently grew up in a less  affectionate age. In the early fifties a
> >pididdle first spotted allowed you to punch the less attentive rider in
> >the back seat.
>
> Late 60s, New York suburbs, padiddle (let's spell it right, damnit!)
> involved a single burned out headlight. The person who called it first got
> to punch someone else. I don't remember a version with kisses as a reward,
> but that might be because I remember the game as played by a group of
girls
> riding around together.
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