Recession-inspired road trip games
Posted
Sep 02 2009, 06:44 PM
by
Karen Datko
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Many folks -- although 13% fewer than last year, AAA predicts -- will be hitting the road this Labor Day weekend. To make the time pass (and keep the kids occupied) maybe you'll roll out those old road trip games, like finding the letters of the alphabet in order on road signs and license plates. (If you're driving, you may not want to compete in that one.)
Or you can try out recession-inspired games and songs created by Laura Rich at Recessionwire.
For instance, sing this song to the tune of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall":
150 million working Americans (she doesn't add "on the wall" here, but we think you can),
150 million working Americans,
Take one down, kick him around,
149 million working Americans.
You can stop at 141 million or whatever number of people still have jobs at the time, she says.
A few others from her post "8 recession road trip games":
- A variation on the punch-someone-when-you-see-a-VW-Bug game, you tap the person next to you when you see a house for-sale sign. Punching would be too brutal. There are lots of signs out there.
- "Old McDonald Had a Farm" morphs into "Old McDonald Sold His Farm" with appropriate word changes in each verse.
- Twenty questions recession-style is similar to the regular version, except, Laura says, "To keep it fun, make a rule that the object has to be something related to the downturn. Such as: a pink slip; or a clunker; or Bernie Madoff."
Related reading:
Are we there yet? Road trips are back
Madoff victims fight for money
Weakness behind those payroll numbers
Big jump in July foreclosures
