Did a Person Run Next to Your Car When You Were a Kid?

it's not creepy, it's just a fast guy

Every once in awhile it was Spider-Man

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Sometimes you run out of things to do on a 5-hour car ride and so you turn it into a 2D platformer.

I didn't have a "guy," but I would trace a running/jumping path with my finger, leaping over obstacles — cows, buildings, etc. So I guess my finger was the guy.

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When my Grandma took me for Sunday afternoon drives, the paparazzi ran alongside for a while---they'd fall away when she speeded up enough, but more (or maybe sometimes the same guys, catching up) would appear as she slowed for traffic. They wanted pix of her, not me.

is ur grandma spider-man? If so, say hi for me.

When we set off home from the North-east to the South, our nephew/nieces would run along to where we would turn in the road and back to the accompaniment of their mum shouting "Careful! Don't run in the road! Don't fall over! Bye......"

Mine was only on a skateboard, and just the highway, doing tricks on barriers or through the ditch

My wife (who didn't do this) has a theory that it's linked to playing a lot of video games.

There was the kid who ran up to the car door and kicked it while we were in motion.

i saw this BEFORE i ever played a video game tbh

which dates me severely but it's true: When I was a child, you could be as old as eight or ten and still not have played a video game yet.

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We had a guy who ran along the main roads wearing a backpack (local lore said it was filled with weights) with a look of absolute agony on his face, head bopping up and down in rhythm. Regular sighting for a good 10 years at least.

Oh this is about another thing. Yes, I would mentally do that too. Though not a man, just a nebulous object that would grind and hop the telephone wires and poles.

my best friend would do it with our car after we left his house, but he was an oddball. one time he got off the school bus, waiting for it to turn back around, then dove out of the way dramatically, throwing his books wildly in the air and landing hard in the street, to make it look like he'd almost been hit by the bus. he thought this was hilarious.

this being same kid that mailed me black and white porn pics without warning in the mail as I mentioned in other thread.

Does seeing ghosts on the side of a country road at night count?

there was a man that we snagged on our car and dragged for several blocks while my parents were blackout drunk driving, but I'm not supposed to talk about it

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i didn't have a guy but that was because i was too focused on the telephone poles and the lines connecting them. i wish i had circa's skateboarder but i was just obsessed with their regularity and kind of mentally "clicking" whenever they'd pass a certain point on the window. not unlike how you "play" in guitar hero

Yeah, I seem to remember that guy

KM put it there my man

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3/8 of us know what's up

let the car freaks unite tonight!

run lil fella run

tonight, lil fella, you're gonna bounce on every single rooftop and do your perfect run. and then you're gonna retire and be a special assistant for a while

up on the rooftop click click click

forks have i told you about my "counting game"? it kind of has to do with the person who runs next to the car

awooooo

well long story short, it's very basic and has to do with assigning musical durations to every word and letter -- letters generally count as an eighth note, capitalized letters are a quarter, spaces are an eighth rest, periods are a quarter rest. "perfect" words or phrases are ones that amount to a standard 4/4 bar. There are exceptions -- "I" only counts as a lowercase 8th note since it is almost always followed by a space/eight rest. It's just cleaner that way. I am a counting fool

and...i used to do the counting game along with the telephone poles in the car

this is what happens when your parents don't listen to music. let it be a warning to all current parents who don't listen to music

That’s extremely relatable