How are kids gonna grow up right if they don't know what a Paddidle is?

[P&R Fan]

Last night I noticed one of my employees, a 19 year old guy, was driving a car that was a Paddidle. When I told him that he looked confused. I had to explain what that meant to him.

How can we raise productive members of society if they are not taught important things like this?
Jim

 

[Arik]

Ok :what: im 33 and in the car biz and never heard of a paddidle :what:

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[eb07]

as long as you touched the roof it's all good

 

[P&R Fan]

Ok :what: im 33 and in the car biz and never heard of a paddidle :what:

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Sigh. OK, I'll educate you.

A Paddidle is a car with a burnt out headlight. When you see one, and you have a date with you, you are supposed to get a kiss.

Everybody when I was growing up in the early '80s knew that.
Jim

 

[Arik]

Sigh. OK, I'll educate you.

A Paddidle is a car with a burnt out headlight. When you see one, and you have a date with you, you are supposed to get a kiss.

Everybody when I was growing up in the early '80s knew that.
Jim

:what::what::what:

Thanks! Learn something new every day. I'll add that to my fountain of useless knowledge!!

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[Sprefix]

Wasn't aware of the kiss. Good thing too! My poor brother would have been hit MUCH harder if he tried that every time a padiddle was spotted.............

 

[Arik]

At my first real job we played "door knob, safety". Anyone know that one?

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[DeathGrip]

:what::what::what:

Thanks! Learn something new every day. I'll add that to my fountain of useless knowledge!!

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It's useful.

I forgot about this one. We also used it when we spotted a VW Bug. That would have been in the mid to late 60's when we were kids. I never kissed my sister but didn't hit her hard like my brother.

Later on when I started dating I used it to great advantage.

I'll have to tell my wife about this one. She's amazed by our strange American traditions and slang.

 

[LVSteve]

We had annual car inspections and picky coppers where I lived in England, so even if I knew what it was the chances of a padiddle were small.

 

[kudzu3]

Dangit! And I thought I knew everything!

 

[USAF385]

I wouldn't worry. I know kids around here are still playing the padiddle game. Heck, I still call it out when I see one!

 

[PALADIN85020]

I was in college in the late 1950s before I found out about the padiddle. I was driving along with a girl I had just started dating, when she yelled "padiddle" and planted one on my lips, along with a half-yard of tongue. I was pleasantly surprised, but inquired as to the strange behavior. She explained it all to me then. Glad to see that the custom is still recognized here and there!

John

 

[wbraswell]

Damn, I feel smart now. So what am I supposed to get if both headlights were burnt out?

 

[Bullzaye]

Damn, I feel smart now. So what am I supposed to get if both headlights were burnt out?

Hit head-on.

Tim

 

[kozmic]

What happens if the headlight isn't actually blown out but the driver is a bit "dim"?!?!??!

 

[laskt9]

At my first real job we played "door knob, safety". Anyone know that one?

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Played that in school. Only one door knob and it was on the bottom floot

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[ChattanoogaPhil]

A kiss? Don't tell my old girlfriends... they way overpaid.

 

[Biginge]

Grew up in Louisiana. Never heard of a paddidle but a "Cockeye" achieved the same results in the pelican state. Today gang initiation requires the killing of the next one headlighted car . My how times have changed.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

For some odd reason here in Pennsiltucky we called em Faddidl's (lost the D somewhere) right before we punched our buddy in the shoulder.

 

[CajunBass]

Back in the day, here in central Va. it was "Popeye" and if we were with a girl, we got a kiss. Unless the girl called it first. Then she got a choice...she could kiss you, or punch you. If with a guy, the first to call it, got to do the punching.

I never heard of a "Piddiddle" until my wife moved here from the midwest. But then I never heard a water fountain called a "bubbler" before then either.

I wonder if kids know how to "frog" someone anymore, or would they go to jail for it now?