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[challenge entry] Route planner companies have finally adapted
their time calculations to PST (Parent Standard Time).



Dad, when do we arrive in Rome? Oh, just another hour, son.

From the What if the things grown-ups tell kids were true? challenge. See all 270 entries (closed)

(I helped save b3ta! RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:15, archived)
# Are we there yet?
(I helped save b3ta! Tone Depear fucking rocks, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:18, archived)
# Keep quiet, it's just one more hour to go!
(I helped save b3ta! RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:20, archived)
# I think I've done one
*blubs*
(I helped save b3ta! Tone Depear fucking rocks, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:22, archived)
#
*turns to mum*
See what YOUR son did again? We will never get there!
(I helped save b3ta! RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:26, archived)
# *smirk*
(I helped save b3ta! Tone Depear fucking rocks, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:27, archived)
# No
(I helped save b3ta! TIAL Four capital letters, written in gold., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:21, archived)
# Oooooh
I had a gameboy and sony walkman

The journeys were always more exciting than the visits for me
(I helped save b3ta! TIAL Four capital letters, written in gold., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:22, archived)
# We didn't have these things.
We only had cassettes with childish songs or stories, which my parents refused to play after 10 minutes of driving.
(I helped save b3ta! RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:24, archived)
# I had word-searches and books
and scenery.
(I helped save b3ta! Tone Depear fucking rocks, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:28, archived)
# You're lucky
I had a terrible cassette called "Tables Disco" - the times tables set to a "disco" beat. My parents thought it was a good idea to embellish a already hellish long journey with a little light maths.

Tayyyyybles Disssssco!!!!!!

*shudders*
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:29, archived)
# How can anyone take their poor kids on a 12 hour journey
to some god awful, uninteresting foreign country? Without proper on board entertainment? Somebody call Amnesty International!!!!!
(I helped save b3ta! RedWine President of the S.C.U.M., Sun 10 Jul 2005, 20:33, archived)
# If you can find that tape
and mp3 it - I'll love you forever
(I helped save b3ta! LP, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 21:05, archived)
# Alas, I think it is lost in the mists of time
But I googled and found this:

www.schoolsmailserver.co.uk/clients/tablescd/

Quite shuddersome, innit?
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Sun 10 Jul 2005, 21:29, archived)