One Eyed Jack

Posted by on September 5th, 2008 at 02:20pm

wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, my brother and I spent many road trips in the back of my mother’s station wagon. Booster seats didn’t exist, there were no such thing as air bags and seat belts were just something you tucked into the crack of the seat to get them out of the way. We were simply tossed into the back cargo area like loosely packed groceries.
There where no handheld gaming devices or cell phones - we had one of those primitive triangular peg board puzzle games and the Rubic’s Cube.  Most of the time we would just sit back there and watch the other cars.  Like many kids on long trips we found amusement in waving to anyone who would wave back, signaling truck drivers to blow their horns… but, our favorite pass time was One Eyed Jack.
If you were playing One Eyed Jack, you had your nose to the window […]

Read the rest of this great post here

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