'I saw it first'
Every time there is a car journey with two or more members of my immediate family in the car this game is played, even today. Often ending in horrific arguments.

About 20 minutes from home there is a large penis shaped monument on top of a large hill. The Hode monument on Hode Hill to be exact. The first person to see it has to shout 'I saw it first'. But to see it you need to go around another hill for it to come in to view. So everyone pretty much sees it at the same time.

Ive played this game since I was able to speak and a lot of people I know play it because its a nice little marker to know you're nearly home.

Mine is the only family I know of to have the game escalate to arguments and have punches thrown (between myself and my sibling).

My dad is possibly the worst person ever to play this game with. He's over 50 now and if he loses he throws a paddy like a child... It keeps us occupied I suppose.
(i should have joined myspace, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 18:46, 7 replies)

2nd mention of Hoad monument this QOTW
is this place filed with ulverstonians?! O.o

you know HOad is meant to mean 'testacle' in german? not sure if its a myth but the german penfriends must have got some interesting letters if true :)
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 20:07, closed)

Wheres the 1st?
I am much intrigued.. I am a Barrovian myself and another of my kind stumbled upon me on the eccentrics post.
(i should have joined myspace, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 20:38, closed)

took me ages, had to work through the lot using find :)
www.b3ta.com/questions/familycodes/post309790
(DreddPirateBob has watched every scifi film ever on, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 22:17, closed)

I could tenuously make it 3
As my other half has lived in Ulverston for the last 18 months, so every single Sunday morning that I am visiting, we say 'Lets go and walk up The Hoad to The John Barrow Monument (to give it its real name) before we go for lunch'

and every singly Sunday morning we fail to do so.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 10:39, closed)

if you wanted to cheat I recommend going up the back way

(i should have joined myspace, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 11:33, closed)

Will she still
be able to walk up the hoad with me after?

(sorry)
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 11:48, closed)

The good ol' Hoad
I, too, was brought up in Barrow and enjoyed/endured this ritual.

I've lived all over the place in the 22 years since I escaped but occasionally go back to visit my folks.

Now I get a warm glow on coming round the corner and seeing The Hoad loom into view. It means in 20 minutes I'll be getting fussed over and reading in the Evening Mail which of my former schoolfriends have been arrested.

A lot of years ago, during a spectacularly dismal period in my life, I actually burst into tears of relief and self pity on seeing The Hoad from the train window.
( The Disappointed Caravanner of the year, Wed 26 Nov 2008, 20:08, closed)