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Last night we were startled from the lounge by the familiar sound of revving engine and squealing tyres.
“They’re doughballin’! “
… exclaimed Lindsay as she sprinted through to the bay windows for a peek through the blinds at the action going on just outside in the turnaround point at the end of our street. Somewhat dazed by the comment and slow to catch on I leapt up and followed, quizzing myself inside what on earth ‘dough-balling’ could possibly be about. I should add before I go on that my knowledge of a ’dough-ball’ is a quaint Scottish term for an edible suet or bread dumpling usuallly found in wintry stews and hotpots across the dreich heatherlands, hence my confusion.
As we reached the window the noise abated into a pair of disappearing red tail-lights and a fifteen metre long pair of tyre marks on the road and it suddenly hit me what she had meant.
“They’re doing doughnuts”
…would be the more accurate term and for those of you unfamiliar with car jargon, it is a form of entertainment whereby a car is revved hard and skidded round and round in circles with its rear tyres smoking and screaming while laying down thick black lines of rubber that, if repeated enough times, forms doughnut type rings on the road. It should be carried out in front of as many cheering onlookers as possible in order to receive rapturous applause with the ultimate doughnut resulting in complete destruction of both rear tyres as they explode due to being worn right through to their carcasses. In the name of correctness it should also be done somewhere like a race track or very spacious airfield although the little boy in me finds it hard to condemn this kind of thing on a deserted cul-de-sac in suburban Sydney.And being as there is just such an ideal place for it outside our house it seems to happen quite regularly. But I suppose this driver was just practicing as there was not one single spectator; even we missed it.
So doughballin’ is now officially ‘Lindsayspeak’ for rev-heads taking their cars and spinning circles on the road using their rear tyres as paintbrushes and can be added to the list of other popular terminology like Honda Goldenbird for which she really means a Honda Goldwing motorcycle… It’s fun adding another language to our repertoire.
