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Old Fashioned Family Time
By Cherie DeBurger, Wallaceburg • From Daytripping Nov-Dec 2009
When I was young, which to me
was not that long ago but to my kids
it is unimaginable, my parents would
pack my brothers and sister and I in
the car and go for a drive. My parents
loved to drive to the little surrounding
towns and look at the beautiful big old
houses. There was no rhyme or reason
to where we went, for my family it
was a way to dream and relax, well
most of the time.
In those days it was an inexpensive
way to spend some time together as
a family, back before you had to sell
a kidney to get a full tank
of gas. It was not yet law
to wear a seat belt so we
would pile in the car,
the four kids in the
back and mom and
dad in the front. As
we rolled out of the
driveway Dolly Parton
would start to sing
about her ‘Coat of
Many Colours’ from the
8-track tape player and
my little brother would
start to sing along. We would drive
along the Sydenham River through
Dresden, which was only about a
ten-minute drive from our home. It
was long enough, however, for the
rhythmic sound of the tires on the
pavement to lull my youngest brother
into the hypnotic sleep that overtakes
us all still to this day whenever we are
in a car for any length of time. As we
made our way through town, my older
brother would slide down in his seat
in an attempt to hide from his friends
the fact that he was hanging out with
his family. My sister would be looking
out the window for any chance to
blow my brothers cover and I would
be playing the ‘what if’ game. What
if there’s an earthquake? What if
all my hair falls out? What if we get
a flat tire? In an effort to get me to
stop talking for any amount of time
at all, my mother would look out the
window and ask me if I had seen the
giraffe we just passed. Remembering
back, I was definitely not the brightest
crayon in the box as I whipped my
head around to scan the block we just
passed in hopes of spotting the totally
out of place herbivore. Not only did I
fall for it once but repeatedly, never
questioning my mother why there
were lions, tigers and rhinos hiding
behind farmer’s tractors or standing
in the middle of a bean field outside
of Petrolia.
The name game never
failed to come up at some
point during our drive,
this is the game where
you have to make up
a man’s name and
a woman’s name
as well as a town and
something to sell all
starting with the same
letter. We would go
through the alphabet
and whoever landed on
q or z would inevitably
be stumped until my mom would
whisper an answer in their ear in just
the knick of time.
Usually by the time we reached
whatever small town we were visiting,
the kids would all be sleeping, resting
against each other in the back seat
like some strange human domino
formation. Mom and dad would
slowly tour up and down the streets
that resembled any and all Norman
Rockwell paintings. They would look
at the beautiful old brick homes with
all the intricate woodwork adorning
the gables and large front porches.
That was their time, the part of the
trip that belonged to them, to talk and
dream or reminisce about life.
Those slow, sleepy, dreamy days
are held dear by everyone in our
family and is something that we enjoy
doing now with our own children.
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