Anyone else?

10/5/2008 11:13:39 PM

holy shit, i thought i was the only one who did this

10/5/2008 11:14:10 PM

que?

10/5/2008 11:14:12 PM

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10/5/2008 11:14:21 PM

you make him jump mailboxes and shit

10/5/2008 11:14:39 PM

signed

10/5/2008 11:14:46 PM

this summer i just imagined that every car was trying to hit me. i made it through 3 hours of arizona averaging 102 mph in a mazda 626.

10/5/2008 11:15:38 PM

i masturbate.

10/5/2008 11:19:17 PM

sometimes it was a guy running, other times it's a dude on a motorcycle doing tricks and shit

10/5/2008 11:19:56 PM

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"holy shit, i thought i was the only one who did this"

10/5/2008 11:20:37 PM

^^ my guy was on a skateboard.

[Edited on October 5, 2008 at 11:21 PM. Reason : ^]

10/5/2008 11:20:56 PM

i imagined i was riding my dirtbike beside the car jumping the driveway humps

10/5/2008 11:25:38 PM

Motorcycle for me. Until a guard rail came along, then it became a skateboard so i could grind it out.

10/5/2008 11:47:29 PM

My dude was on a skateboard so that he could grind on power lines if it was a low obstacle area.

10/5/2008 11:52:06 PM

ooooh, i used to ride my trapeze motorcycle on the power lines and jump the power poles and land back on the lines

10/5/2008 11:55:06 PM

my guy ran on the air on a plane perpendicular to the road and jumped everytime there was a telephone pole.

also when you lay down and look at the powerlines they jump up everytime they hit a telephone pole then come back down

10/5/2008 11:55:12 PM

beat you by 6 seconds!

10/5/2008 11:55:54 PM

wow, it's bizarre so many people have the same odd imagination... I wonder what's the mechanism for that?

10/5/2008 11:59:59 PM

^ all grew up playing side scrolling games?

10/6/2008 12:08:16 AM

^ ahhh, good call

10/6/2008 12:14:52 AM

the old side-scrolling skate-or-die was my first nintendo game besides mario, so i definitely had the skater dude doing mad tricks

10/6/2008 1:01:15 AM

oh god. i used to imagine i was running next to the car.

[Edited on October 6, 2008 at 1:05 AM. Reason : i'm my own little man.]

10/6/2008 1:02:28 AM

Quote :

"sometimes it was a guy running, other times it's a dude on a motorcycle doing tricks and shit"

Quote :

"holy shit, i thought i was the only one who did this"

10/6/2008 6:08:19 AM

I either had my fingers "running" and jumping over stuff...or I'd have my HotWheels car driving next to us.


side bar: That f00 said skate-or-die. OMG... I used to KILL that shit, son.

10/6/2008 6:13:28 AM

signed

10/6/2008 6:35:51 AM

Yes!

Sadly, this phenomenon is likely going to die with us.

Kids these days watch TV and play video games on long car trips.

[Edited on October 6, 2008 at 6:46 AM. Reason : And they definitely don't play side-scrolling video games. I never thought about that!]

10/6/2008 6:44:38 AM

Anyone here remember the old driving game where it was just a plastic console with a rotating street on a "screen" and you used the built-in steering wheel to move a little car from side to side to avoid obstacles/other cars?

10/6/2008 6:56:51 AM

definitely jumped power poles with my hand and pretended my hand was a skateboard. I think this is because i used to want a finger board.

grinding everything in sight and jumping driveways as mentioned earlier

10/6/2008 6:56:56 AM

sometimes i imagine that my house is just around the corner on whatever road i am on, or that the next exit might actually be the exit for home- even when I am hours away.

10/6/2008 7:57:35 AM

I imagined a monster truck next to me jumping off of everything.

^^^yes i remember that game.

[Edited on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 AM. Reason : ^^]

10/6/2008 7:59:25 AM

I too am surprised at how common this is

10/6/2008 8:01:48 AM

Quote :

"holy shit, i thought i was the only one who did this"

10/6/2008 8:07:00 AM

yep

10/6/2008 9:05:33 AM

I imagined animals running and jumping over stuff.. never cars/bikes or people

and I only did this on school bus rides. I guess I wasn't as bored on road trips.

10/6/2008 9:08:37 AM

I never did this.

I like the hypothesis that side scrolling games were a result of this.

I wonder what kids today, or our kids will imagine if they never played side scrolling games.

10/6/2008 10:47:59 AM

lol, I have never done this but probably will now

10/6/2008 10:48:57 AM

I always imagined I was "the flash" and was my own little man running along side the car.

10/6/2008 11:35:03 AM

apparently i have no imagination

10/6/2008 12:03:45 PM

Quote :

"holy shit, i thought i was the only one who did this"

[Edited on October 6, 2008 at 12:52 PM. Reason : kk]

10/6/2008 12:52:26 PM

I keep track of mile marker signs or count off a number for each telephone/light pole. And I only stop when I've come to a prime mile or pole # (if I can... sometimes it's unavoidable to get off the highway before)

10/6/2008 12:58:47 PM

no

10/6/2008 1:00:25 PM

Yeah I did this also.

10/6/2008 1:02:32 PM

i switched it up from skateboard, running, and dirt bike...mostly skateboard though

10/6/2008 1:31:00 PM

I did skateboard also, so that he could grind the rails.

I also made the noises, my parents probably hated it.

10/6/2008 1:31:58 PM

no

10/6/2008 1:32:36 PM

fuckin weirdos itt

10/6/2008 1:32:46 PM

I used to do this camera 1-camera 2 thing where I'd make flecks of dirt on the windshield avoid obstacles like telephone poles. wtf was i on?

10/6/2008 1:34:22 PM

^i did that and the original thing too. just depended if i was in the front seat or back seat

10/6/2008 1:50:04 PM

no I would just keep time in my head and see how close I was to the actual time at the end of the trip.

10/6/2008 1:59:37 PM

^^ hahaha i did that too, but that one's a little hard to do without looking a little conspicuous...also used to use the white dashes on the interstate as a visual slalom

my "little man out the window" was usually me pretending I was the best dirtbike/atv rider in the world

10/6/2008 3:15:23 PM