REQUIRED TO PLAY: One serviceable automobile, one valid driver's license. Paranoid friends and relatives add to the fun.
OBJECT OF THE GAME: To obtain the highest possible number of points over a set period of time by completing certain objectives, usually involving tacky violations of road law and/or etiquette, written and unwritten.
HOW TO PLAY: This game is as much a pastime as a sport. You can play anywhere, any time: driving to work, dropping the kids off at soccer, going on a joy ride with friends, moving your father-in-law's jaguar around the block for him. Try to complete as many objectives as possible in the shortest possible time. Style points figure big in this game, as do making up your own objectives on the spur of the moment. Success requires quick thinking, situational awareness, and the sort of mind that brings you to FCN in the first place.
Scoring and objective verification is based on the honor system.
OBJECTIVES (An incomplete list):
Fake forward. While stopped at a red light, edge forward a few inches, then stop.
2 points: Make the car behind you edge forward as well.
4 points: Make the car next to you edge forward.
6 points: Make the car next to you run the light.
9 points: Make the car next to you drive into oncoming traffic.
13 points: Make the car behind you rear-end you. Sue the driver out of house and home.
Zone of Control. Throw a left turn signal indicating a merge into the fast lane, but stay in your current lane indefinitely.
1 point: Make a passing car fall back.
2 points: Make a passing hummer fall back.
4 points: Make a sports car follow behind you indefinitely.
13 points: Make a police car follow behind you indefinitely.
I'm from Europe. Drive a donut in the middle of an intersection.
2 points: Learn a new word from a fellow motorist.
7 points: Learn a new word from a nun.
Litter bug. While stopped at a red light, exit the car to collect a piece of trash lying on the side of the road, then return to the vehicle before the light turns green.
3 points: Get a Spock eyebrow from the driver behind you.
5 points: Collect the litter that the driver behind you just tossed out his window.
9 points: Sell the litter on eBay.
11 points: Catch the litter before it hits the ground.
14 points: Appear on the Village Roadshow with the litter.
Chicken Little. Roll down your window and gesture emphatically skyward.
1 point: Make someone look.
2 points: Catch them looking and laugh at them.
4 points: Make someone leap from their car and run for cover.
8 points: Make everyone in sight leap from their car and run for cover.
15 points: Reverse the flow of traffic.
My favorite song. Roll down your window and sing along with the radio of an adjacent motorist who also has his/her windows down.
2 points: Make the fellow motorist turn his music up.
3 points: Make the fellow motorist turn his music down.
5 points: The song is "Riding Dirty."
Actually, it can be done. Parallel park from across the street by sawing a hard left and closing the hand brake.
2 points: Complete this stunt without damaging anything.
3 points: Complete this stunt and damage a jaguar.
5 points: Complete this stunt and damage your father-in-law's jaguar.
8 points: Complete this stunt in your father-in-law's jaguar.
10 points: Complete this stunt in your prospective father-in-law's jaguar with your sweetheart in the passenger seat.
16 points: Complete this stunt in your prospective father-in-law's jaguar with your prospective mother-in-law in the passenger seat.
Gotcha Going. Rev your engine as a pedestrian passes in front of you on a crosswalk.
-1 point: Get a Spock eyebrow from said pedestrian.
3 points: Get a scream.
5 points: Make said pedestrian break and run.
7 points: Make said pedestrian break and run into oncoming traffic.
12 points: Make an adjacent motorist drive into oncoming traffic.
15 points: The pedestrian is wearing an orange vest and holding a KIDS XING sign.
Scoring and objective verification is based on the honor system.
OBJECTIVES (An incomplete list):
Fake forward. While stopped at a red light, edge forward a few inches, then stop.
2 points: Make the car behind you edge forward as well.
4 points: Make the car next to you edge forward.
6 points: Make the car next to you run the light.
9 points: Make the car next to you drive into oncoming traffic.
13 points: Make the car behind you rear-end you. Sue the driver out of house and home.
Zone of Control. Throw a left turn signal indicating a merge into the fast lane, but stay in your current lane indefinitely.
1 point: Make a passing car fall back.
2 points: Make a passing hummer fall back.
4 points: Make a sports car follow behind you indefinitely.
13 points: Make a police car follow behind you indefinitely.
I'm from Europe. Drive a donut in the middle of an intersection.
2 points: Learn a new word from a fellow motorist.
7 points: Learn a new word from a nun.
Litter bug. While stopped at a red light, exit the car to collect a piece of trash lying on the side of the road, then return to the vehicle before the light turns green.
3 points: Get a Spock eyebrow from the driver behind you.
5 points: Collect the litter that the driver behind you just tossed out his window.
9 points: Sell the litter on eBay.
11 points: Catch the litter before it hits the ground.
14 points: Appear on the Village Roadshow with the litter.
Chicken Little. Roll down your window and gesture emphatically skyward.
1 point: Make someone look.
2 points: Catch them looking and laugh at them.
4 points: Make someone leap from their car and run for cover.
8 points: Make everyone in sight leap from their car and run for cover.
15 points: Reverse the flow of traffic.
My favorite song. Roll down your window and sing along with the radio of an adjacent motorist who also has his/her windows down.
2 points: Make the fellow motorist turn his music up.
3 points: Make the fellow motorist turn his music down.
5 points: The song is "Riding Dirty."
Actually, it can be done. Parallel park from across the street by sawing a hard left and closing the hand brake.
2 points: Complete this stunt without damaging anything.
3 points: Complete this stunt and damage a jaguar.
5 points: Complete this stunt and damage your father-in-law's jaguar.
8 points: Complete this stunt in your father-in-law's jaguar.
10 points: Complete this stunt in your prospective father-in-law's jaguar with your sweetheart in the passenger seat.
16 points: Complete this stunt in your prospective father-in-law's jaguar with your prospective mother-in-law in the passenger seat.
Gotcha Going. Rev your engine as a pedestrian passes in front of you on a crosswalk.
-1 point: Get a Spock eyebrow from said pedestrian.
3 points: Get a scream.
5 points: Make said pedestrian break and run.
7 points: Make said pedestrian break and run into oncoming traffic.
12 points: Make an adjacent motorist drive into oncoming traffic.
15 points: The pedestrian is wearing an orange vest and holding a KIDS XING sign.
Cut! Drive off a cliff just before something explodes.
40 points.
5 comments:
How many points for driving directly at pedestrians, timely swerving, and leaving tread on the red curb?
Wow, I can hardly wait to play!
Oh man. That was great. Best post in a long time. Here's another good one.
Follow the Leader: Follow a police officer who is going at least 10 MPH over the speed limit.
2 points for not getting pulled over.
5 points for getting a ticket.
10 points for getting pulled over and arguing your way out of the ticket because he was speeding too.
and you guys wonder why you don't have girlfriends yet?
oh man, you guys are so funny.
i love this game!
how many points to i get for hitting multiple pedestrians at once?
how about weaving between those college students who insist on walking in the middle of the road at a very high speed without hitting any of them?
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