On the way home from the pediatrics office today, Sheri and I were comparing the rules that we used to play that "perdiddle" game by. You know, the look-for-cars-with-one-headlight game that you used to play as a teenager. Anyway, I was astounded to find the vast differences that the game was played by just between Northern and Southern Utah. Check it out:

My rules: Cars with one headlight were called perdiddles, and were worth one kiss. Cars with one taillight were called perdunkles, and were worth ten kisses. In order to claim a perdiddle or a perdunkle, you would have to be the first to kiss your palm and smack it against the ceiling of the car. Once you gained a hundred kisses, you won the game and could "cash in" with a girl you fancied. Later on, instead of kissing your palm, my friends came up with this semi-complicated smacking rhythm that you would have to do against the dashboard and windshield: two down, one up, one down. No kissing of your palm was necessary.

Sheri's rules: Cars with one headlight meant for people to shout out, "sex!" and do the same hand-kissing-ceiling-smacking ceremony as described above. Cars with four headlights meant for people to shout, "four-play!" and do the dashboard thing: one down, one up, three side to side. A "four-play" with one light out meant for people to shout, "menage-a-trois!" and do the same down-up-side-side thing. If you were the last in the car to smack or claim, five times in a row, you had to get out and run around the car at the next red light. There was no "cash-in" system in the Southern Utah version, at least as far as Sheri could recall.

Does anybody else remember any other rules?

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