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For people who don’t get sick on car rides, it IS genius
And not everybody can afford fancy schmancy models with DVD players
Thanks! It just didn’t serve me well, you can make one if you like :)
Ah yes, I can totally relate to this one! Wobbly results AND carsickness for the rest of the trip. Yee-uck!
It’s the worst. I read somewhere that kids actually get less car sick because they can’t see as much of the faster moving ground, they see more sky. I wonder if that’s true…
I used to doodle all the time on long car rides as a kid. Although even in the Analog Age, there were some rather limited handheld games out there for kids.
Oh no! Tiger electronics games were so bad! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microvision
I made a similar invention when I was young. My patience was tested every time my pencil stabbed through the page… which happened constantly. Cardboard really isn’t the greatest surface.
Ha! I forgot about that! That would happen to me too!:)
Oh god, the motion sickness… I first experienced it when on a family trip to Nova Scotia, and I was completely fixiated on the new Go-Bot that had been purchased for me. The little cement mixer, I think his name was blockhead. I was having so much fun playing with that little dude until the twists and turns of the car got the better of me… I had to look out windows for the entire rest of the ride, to try and keep myself settled! I didn’t dare fixate on something inside of the family car for YEARS afterward!
Yep, Go-Bots in thear was a staple of my childhood too :)
I never got too car sick until I rode the Back To The Future ride. Ever since then, can’t read or draw anything in the car…
I was stuck without anything for a while, until eventually when I was 12 or so handheld portable cd players became affordable enough for a kid to have. At least then I had music to distract me. I was the sort of kid who got horribly sick if I looked down too much – even now, all I have to do is look down for a minute and my head and stomach feel terrible. I’m pretty good to do whatever I want on boats, planes, buses, and trains, and roller coasters do absolutely nothing to me. I can only assume it’s the speed, ground proximity, and closed-in nature of the car cabin that really gets to me. I remember breaking out in sweats and feeling super warm, and the only thing that could quell the nausea was air from an opened window (preferrably cold) – air conditioning could make it worse! My parents were pretty annoyed about that. They liked air conditioning a lot.
Even now, as a driver, I prefer having the windows open whenever possible.
I’ve been told that my motion sickness is really strong, but it seems like you have it pretty bad :(
What about the sweaty palms? I hate that. Can you fly?
I don’t notice my palms sweating, but I start sweating all over my face. I’m good on planes, though I’ve only flown three times in my life. First person shooter video games also used to go straight to my head within 15 minutes. I’ve heard a person can train themselves out of that, so I’ve gotten a bit better over the years by exposing myself a little longer each time when I feel up to it. I can play minecraft for a few hours now without much discomfort, which is pretty rad. Considering that, the carsickness thing might just be me psyching myself out at this point. Thankfully I’m usually the driver so I don’t have to worry about it.
I did something similar except I used books or the backs of anything sturdy I could find. ANYTHING. literally I couldn’t get in the car for a long car ride without doodling SOMETHING. I made up stupid lil childish comics, and I thought I was the best thing ever. :)
Do you go back and look at them now? Do they kinda sum up what you were like back then?
I would have to endure an 8 hour drive almost every summer going across the prairies in Canada…I think most of the time I just day dreamed out the window. I couldn’t sleep on car rides but fortunately I never got car sick!
You are very lucky. 8 hours seems really far. Did you all sing songs? :)
Oh man I was the same! And I never learned. I still draw when I’m in the bus!
Can’t stop right? You get to that point where you are “I can finish this, I’m not that sick…”
I hated it when the car would wobble. My mom bought one that doesn’t wobble now, but whenever I’m in it she makes me drive!
After the first time you ride in a car after a long stretch of driving, doesn’t it take a while to get used to it? You can get car sick too right?
Lol awesome comic.
And I used to get terribly travel sick. It’s less so now, I think because I read magazines on the bus almost everyday (built up a tolerance, maybe?) If I haven’t been in a car or something for ages though, then I get ill :(
Strange. I wonder if sailors don’t get as car sick? Maybe us landlubbers are just wimps! :)
jajajajaja, funny!
Thanks!
that your invention was ingenious but you’ll be dizzy
It as an iPad before the iPad! :)
I never got sick in cars, so being a voracious reader I was never all that bored with car rides. Besides wed also bring little puzzles like rubixs cubes and if all else failed, there were games like The Alphabet Game or I Spy to keep us occupied.
We never had a fancy schmancy portable DVD player untill very recent years (and now that Im grown up and moved out, only my little sister gets the benifit!)
Isn’t that always the way?! As soon as I moved out, cable was available at our house :(
Yeah, little sis also gets her very own laptop, now that they are sooo more common place then when I was growing up. I had to share our familey’s crappy desktop PC my whole childhood. D:
Wow! You are so lucky! We on;y had a C64 and used it for maybe 3 months then put it away :(
I’ve ALWAYS gotten carsick if I tried to read or draw in the car. Still happens to me as a grown adult! >_<
Ugg! It’s the worst! What about on a train or a plane? Better luck?
I ONLY get car sick if I try to read or doodle or something.
Guess I was lucky..I used a clipboard…and I didn’t suffer from car sickness..(which is lucky as i traveled a lot as a kid!..my dad was a lorry/truck driver and thought it a good idea to take me with him every month or two..we used to drive all around europe ..everywhere from italy to sweden.. pretty much non stop for 6days at a time) I always used to draw whatever I saw thru the window.. or try to..the results were always very shaky and any big bumps would kill felt-tip pens by pushing the tip inside the pen! ..I used to give up after a day or 2 and do my puzzle books..thanks for the memories :)
Wow, you are so lucky to see such wonderful scenery! Six days is a stretch, man! I’m pretty sure that my parents only drove in a 20 mile radius for the first 12 years of my life. My Mom lived three and a half hours away from New York and didn’t even go there once until she was forty!