Nepp It

« Playing neppis in the sand next to the sea and a few other photos of our neppis afternoon a few weeks ago. »

One of the guys at work suggested playing neppis a few weeks ago and pointed to the neppis web site to explain to the uninitiated. After reading through the pages I was more confused than when I began. I thought that if I was reading correctly, neppis was a pastime for the mid-30's set of Finnish guys who never quite got over their Hot Wheels as a kid and thus continued to play with them while making it a somewhat official sport in an attempt to make it respectable. I found that I was mostly correct.

Neppis is played in the sand next to the water with regulation toy cars that are pushed around the track by flicking them with a finger. There are hazards on the course to make it more challenging and, of course, beer to make it more amusing. I thought it was a fun, quirky sort of Finnish pastime of a certain part of the 'tweener' generation [tail end of the boomers but not quite gen x]. The serious players will be at Hietsu on Saturday at 14.00 which I'm not sure will be more or less entertaining than playing with my semi-inebriated colleagues. :)