Dead Batteries Keep Car Games a Family Tradition

After reviewing the posts of my peers, the one that had me reflecting the most was “Car Games”, posted by Folkish Thingamajig. Folkish Thingamajig discussed car games like “The Animal Game” and “The License Plate Game” as a type of folklore that was played in the car on road trips. He also states how his mother gets aggravated at people with children who do not play games while in their cars.

Well I would like to add “The Cow Counting Game” to the customary folklore of car games. I recall playing “The Cow Counting Game” from my Grandparents house in Mooresville, Indiana to my Cousins house in Monrovia, Indiana. My sister and I would always play this game to pass the time from Mooresville to Monrovia. The “Cow Counting Game” sounds similar to “The Animal Game”. The rules are as follows; we would have a race to the car, whoever made it to the car first would get to choose the “best” side of the car that they wanted to sit on. You could only count the cows in the fields on your side of the car that you were sitting on. Whoever counted the most cows was the winner. However, there was a catch, if your side of the car passed a cemetery you would have to start your “cow counting” all over again.

I will have to say that I do not own a minivan with a TV, but my daughter has her IPOD, and my son has his PS2 and those are about the only technologies they bring with them in the car when we travel. Eventually, the batteries die and we will continue the customary folklore traditions of the “The Cow Counting Game”, “I Spy” or “The License Plate Game”.

This is My First Peer Response to Folkish Thingamajig’s Blog “Car Games”.