I saw the reflection of my car last night and niticed my right low-beam was out. I stopped at the auto parts store but wasn’t going to change the light at night in the rain.
Who else uses the term pediddle to refer to a car with one light out? Anyone else play the peddidle game?
Yep. I knew exactly what you meant as soon as I saw the thread title.
Still do.
“Cows” is still my favorite road trip game. Lots of farms where I used to live.
I got introduced to the peddidle game about a month back. I do OK when I’m driving, and concentrating on the road, but I’m terrible as a passenger. Always looking around at everything, but not paying attention to anything.
The way I was told, you can also get points for a “pedonk,” which is a vehicle with only one taillight.
Man, it’s been probably 15 years since I heard/saw that word. Do hit the ceiling of the car when you yell out pediddle?
We gave extra points for the extremely rare pediddle cop.
Finding a pediddle nets you a kiss …
A friend in college taught me that was the pediddle game.
We played strip pedittle in high school. Those were the days.
Yep - my friends and I play the pediddle game. If you see one you have to say pediddle and hit the dashboard a certain way. You smack the dashboard twice, then the windshield with the back of your hand then the dashboard again, so you get 4 taps in quick succession. I dunno, it’s weird. And if you get 3 pediddles in one night the passenger owes you a beer.
the southwest suburbs of chicago were no stranger to padiddle. i played that through three years of my high school.
Pediddle. I’ve never seen that word spelled out before.
Around here, pediddle is a whole 'nother beast, which doesn’t involve cars at all. Whenever we see a person with an eyepatch or glass eye, et cetera, someone yells “pediddle”, then everyone yells “pediddle” and they all rush the person and beat them up. Kind of like a cross between pediddle and the punch-buggy game. >:-) (We need an “evil” smilie.)
Yes, I’m bullsh*ting everyone. 
But we do play pediddle the yell-and-hit-the-roof way. But I don’t remember what penalties or rewards were ever used. Maybe it depended on the group; decided on during the trip.
I’m am curious where the word “pediddle” can from, though. Did it originally refer just to cars with one headlight out, or just to the game played when such a car is seen? And how long has this game been around?
I looked up the word at Dictionary.com, trying variations of the word with a, e, i, and o as the first vowel, and even tt in the place of dd. The closest word that came up was “paradiddle”.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition defines “paradiddle” as a noun meaning…
Could this be a connection to the game of pediddle as played by raz…
This is indeed an interesting “pediddlement”.
'round these parts, I’ve always heard the term “pop-eye”. But we did the tapping too, but I can’t remember what sequence it was.
Depending upon which headlight was out, it was either a pediddle or a pedinkle.
I can honestly say I’ve never heard that term before in my life.
I’ve always called it a “cyclops” car.
I thought it was ‘driving perdido’; reinforced in my mind by my high school Spanish classes, where perdido translated to ‘lost’.
What the hell are you guys talking about? Is this anything like the game we used to play at Cedar Point when we were kids - “Spot the testicle/nipple?”
Not that much fun. The subject is a car with a burned out headlight.
We always spelled it “p’diddle,” and spotting one first nets a kiss from the other occupants of the car… so you had to be careful who you played with!
My hubby and I used to have some sort of escalation – whoever got 5 ahead of the other won, or got more than a kiss, or something. Can’t remember now, I’ll have to ask him. 
That’s definitely a new one on me.
We always called cars with one headlight, uh, a car with one headlight.
Okay
the first person who said Pediddle thought that it was a sniglet.
Know what a *sniglet * is?
And that was in Hawaii in about 1984.
Can I hear where else this term is use and how far back?
and can’t replace the damn headlight because the battery is in the way :smack:
A little confused here(it’s a half-hour after work, so I’m entitled to one cranial eructation): are you referring to the term “pediddle” or the term “sniglet”?
As far as “pediddle”, my (snotty) older cousin taught it to me on the way back from a cross-country trip, back in the very early 1970s [I was 8 at the time, and it was NOT a fun trip, she was hogging the whole back seat since she was twelve and she ‘deserved more of the back seat than me’. Mom finallay straightened her out about seat ownership about fourteen states from where we picked her up. And she (SOC) got pissed when I would win both “pediddle” and “punchbuggy.”