Who remembers this classic childhood car game? We play it in our car a lot, minus the punching. Over time, however, Maia has evolved a complicated set of rules about exactly what you must say in order to receive credit for a punch buggy sighting; a script so complex that only she can remember it accurately, thereby hoarding all punch buggy points for herself. As best my feeble mind can remember, it’s something along the lines of:

“Punch buggy, got it, green one, got it, no punch backs, got it, got it.”

In our car, the game has also expanded beyond VW Beetles. PT Cruisers count, as do Orlando’s colorful public transportation buses, called Lynx buses. Though for the purposes of our game, these buses must be referred to as “paw print buses”—because of the Lynx paw print logo—to gain credit.

However, poor Noah has no hope of ever earning any points since he can’t quite remember exactly how to call his punch buggy sightings for proper credit according to Maia’s ever-changing rules. So he’s simply given up, and has instead taken to helping his sister in her spotting. He points them out to her, and she gets the credit for calling them. It’s teamwork at its finest, especially when playing against others in the car. And even though it’s to Maia’s advantage since she technically keeps the points, I’ll take cooperation like that over bickering any day.