The Annoying Vehicles Game

The Annoying Vehicles Game

As Played on Our Summer Vacation, 1997

When another vehicle did something annoying, like cutting us off, tailgating, or whatever, this went on the Annoying Vehicles list. The driver, in consultation with the passengers, would rank each incident, and the day's top three were entered in a little notebook. First place rated three points, second place got two, and third got one, and the competition was partly to see what make of car was most likely to be annoying.

The gravel truck incident described in the trip report impelled us to set up a system of bonus points -- each of these counted as one additional point:

There may have been a few others.

The gravel truck placed second, but got two additional points for Graveling and Duration. Later that day a moving van racked up Ghastly Color and Duration as well as placing third. A car that was otherwise barely in contention got the Police Bonus.

Fortunately, the inversion bonus has never been awarded.

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