A long drive
Two or more people in a car for hours. Nobody can leave, nobody has to make eye contact.
- When did you last run to catch something, and did you catch it?
- When did you last stand in the rain longer than you needed to?
- When did you last get lost, and who did you ask for directions?
- When did you last take the long way home on purpose?
- When did you last stop walking to look up at a building?
- When did you last smell something in the street that stopped you?
- When did you last get caught staring, and at what?
- When did you last take a shortcut that took longer?
- When did you last fall asleep somewhere that was not a bed?
- What do you carry in your bag every day and never use?
- What subject do you argue about loudly and know nothing about?
- What do you refuse to carry, even when the forecast says you need it?
- What do you know by heart that has never once been useful?
- What noise do you make that you cannot stand hearing from anyone else?
- What do you know how to fix that most people would throw away?
- What can you identify by sound alone?
- Do I seem like someone who sings in the car? Why or why not?
- Guess what song the person opposite knows every word to. Why that one?
- When did you last fix something at home with the wrong tool?
- When did you last get lost without a phone to save you?
- What lives in your bag that you have never once needed?
- What do you refuse to lend, and who ruined it for everyone?
- What's the best way to spend three hours in your hometown?
- What do you spot on a walk that nobody with you sees?
- When did you last sing along in a car, and who was driving?
- When did you last get lost on foot with no phone signal?
- When did you last get stung or bitten by something outdoors?
- Which song should I hear again, and what should I listen for?
- How do you stay awake on a long drive, and who taught you?
- When did you last stand out in the rain longer than you had to?
- When did you last swim in water you couldn't see the bottom of?
- When did you last get badly lost, and who was with you?
- When did you last sleep outdoors, and what woke you?
- When did you last get so cold you couldn't speak properly?
- When did you last let a stranger help you, and with what?
- When did you last knock on a stranger's door?
- When did you last miss the last train, and how did you get home?
- When did you last pretend to know the way?
- When did you last drive somewhere with no destination, and who came with you?
- When did you last hear a noise outside at night and go look?
- When did you last sing in a car with other people in it?
- When did you last take a photograph of the sky?
- When did you last lie flat on the ground outside?
- When did you last get told off by someone in a uniform?
- When did you last walk past a house you used to live in?
- When did you last wake up not knowing what time it was?
- When did you last go somewhere because of a photograph you'd seen?
- What's the worst weather you've ever been happiest in?
- What outdoor plan do you always agree to and dread all week?
- What's a place you loved that you'd refuse to go back to?
- Which city has treated you badly and you still defend it?
- What gear do you still own for a hobby you gave up?
- What's the most beautiful thing you've seen and didn't photograph, and why not?
- Which of us gives the worst directions, and why do we still follow them?
- What's the pettiest reason you've held a grudge against a stranger?
- What do you refuse to do outdoors that everyone assumes you enjoy?
- What have you carried for miles that you should have left behind?
- Where have you slept badly and still want to go back to?
- Which of us would last longest out here, and why isn't it you?
- What can you not do that everyone assumes you can?
- What do you miss about a place you couldn't wait to leave?
- Teach us how you pack a car boot for a week away.
- What's your method for getting a fire lit in wet wood?
- How do you keep warm outdoors when you've dressed wrong?
- Teach us how you'd find your way home without a phone.
- What could you cook on a single camp stove that would surprise us?
- Teach us your trick for sleeping upright in a moving car.
- Teach us how you'd pick a swimming spot in a river you don't know.
- What do you know about your city that a tourist never finds out?
- Teach us how to carry something heavy uphill without wrecking yourself.
- What's your opening line with a stranger at a bus stop?
- Teach us how you stay awake in the last hour of a drive.
- Teach us how to find one thing in tonight's sky.
- Teach us how you'd get a lift from a stranger.
- What's your technique for eating in a moving car without ruining it?
- Teach us how you'd survive one night outside with what's in your pockets.
- Guess which of us has slept outdoors most recently, and why them.
- Guess which of us gets lost first without a phone, and why.
- Do I seem like someone who talks to strangers on trains? Why or why not?
- Guess which of us has been the coldest in their life, and where.
- Guess what I'm like at 6am, and what gave it away.
- Do I seem like someone who drives fast at night? Why or why not?
- Guess what I'd pack for a week outdoors that none of you would. Why?
- When did you last sing out loud in a car?