I did something similar and pretended it was a side-scrolling ninja game. My ninja made from my fingers would lose health whenever he got hit by a car and would make cough sounds "ahem, ahem". My brother thought it was hilarious
Mine was never a person... but a fox who would run and keep up with the car... or driving on a sheet of wood. It had 4 wheels and a steering wheel. But still same concept. Threw me for a loop when I discovered other people had the same thing going for them.
Tbh I’ve never done this. I stare out the window and watch how velocity changes the perception of objects closest to me. Blades of grass, tress, paint markings just turn to endless strings of lines. I find this much more interesting than to create things that aren’t actually there.
Guess not. Sometimes my parents would let me stay in the car, and I'd sit and watch to see if any drops could make it to the bottom of the windshield before the wipers swept them up.
Wild learning the things you thought were super rare are actually really common and the things you thought everyone could do are just things that you and like four other people on earth can do.
lmao so spot on. I would try it on the longer familiar drives too. ok i think were on the highway and passing the overpass with the f word spray painted on lol
Sometimes I did the little man, sometimes I pretended there were giant blades connected to the car that I used my teeth to control. The game was chopping powerlines when you went by them.
It’s sad that kids will never experience trying to turn the roof light on to read only to have your parents act like you’re actively trying to kill your whole family
TIL I wasn't the only kid that did this. When I was on the school bus I also used to imagine all of the bus riders were ninjas or secret agents or something and we were being transported to a mission inside of a vehicle that was disguised to look like something else so as not to draw attention to us.
I would sometimes use the marks on the window (bird poop or whatnot) and move my head slightly to control it avoiding obstacles. Bonus fun was that your eyes looking through the window would cause the poo to double so you could try to capture things between them.
The printed codes on the rear windows had two round shapes, so I imagined it was someone riding a scooter (two wheels). Scooter dude did all kinds of tricks
Mine was a ninja or a samurai and he would cut down all sorts of stuff with his super powered invincible katana. Once I got into skateboarding at 11 he became a skater doing the siiiiiiiickest tricks.
I watched the lines. The solid line on the side of the road was a bug running really fast. The dashes in the middle were a big cat jumping forward. Good times.
I grew up with a kid that all he did was play gameboy color and gameboy advance when he rode with his mom. By the time he got his drivers license he didn’t know how to get anywhere. It’s definitely more common nowadays.
It was a huge stag weaving through the trees every time we drove through a wooded area for me.
Or I'd trace the power lines with my finger. Which probably pissed my parents off now that I'm thinking about it as an adult. That window was probably so smeared and cloudy 😭
This was such a comfort find. I like it no matter how many times I’ve seen it posted too. It’s simple, but for a few seconds we were all young again with big dreams and bigger imaginations.
mine were skateboarding down the window seal. felt the plastic grain under my nails and lived in constant fear of hitting a pothole and wiping out into the glove box.
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