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A road trip with mum
usually includes a lot of food
You get all this picnic
There's always enough to eat
A giant picnic
When we're driving with Dad we often get quite hungry
No food whatsoever
Dad doesn't have a picnic
Mum's picnic has everything from A to Z in it
Crisps
Eggs
Sandwiches
Sausages
Pork pies
Sweets
Beans
Just food everywhere
She once pulled out a cheese scone with clotted cream and jam
which was interesting to say the least
Do you want me to stop?
When mum's in charge of the road trip
we stop as soon as possible
It's like, when is the next services? the second we start going
She stops every five minutes for a coffee
With dad there's a lack of service stations
Stop? We've only just started
You see the sign for services
We've missed them now anyway
Look longingly at it as it goes past the window
That's my dad
Keep going
Mum entertains me by talking and chatting to me
Mum likes to listen to chat shows, talk shows
People speaking
Radio news
I find that quite boring
Dad's got his own special brand of dad music
Let's have some music
Dad music
Wierd Spanish guitar
It's all annoying isn't it
Strange sixties music
How about this?
Long classical piano music
And then he's got his own playlist with his little speaker that goes in the front
Dad classics
I mean like I'm in the book club
There's always something to fight over in the back
Put it away! Boring
Hannah give me some chocolate
Quite a lot of fighting
Fighting over space
who's got the sweets
or Cameron is making some wierd humming noise
Dad usually deals with the fighting with some shouting
If you don't stop fighting now I'll throw you out of the car
He goes off on one
And that usually solves the problem
Mum deals with it like chilled dealing with it
Like sweets for example to make us stop
You know, giving it a little punch
Ow!
Thanks mum
Often dad wants to play some sort of car journey game
Find the A to Z on car number plates
What's the number plate?
A
Where's the B?
B for boring game
These are only really fun if you're dad
When mum's driving when we do play games we usually get lost
What do you mean? You told me to turn right
Haven't we just been up here?
Mum gets distracted by the games
It looks the same
We must have got to L already - lost OK I'm going to look at the map
Dad does not get lost He's always using Google Maps
Turn right onto old military road
We frequently get lost with mum
She never seems to know exactly where we're going
But didn't we just do this?
Yes we did just do this
She tries to find her way back but then gets even more lost
This is going to take us round in a circle
Look snow!