She’s personally given away 17,000 Jeep ducks. She can’t possibly respond to them all, though not for lack of trying. Requests rolled in - eventually 1,000 a week - asking for signed rubber ducks. “It was actually her ducking me! This lady comes over and is about to put the duck on my Jeep, and she looked at me and she knew who I was! And she said, ‘Oh my God, you’re her!’” “I was actually crying in my Jeep.” Then a woman approached, with a rubber duck. “Worst day I’d had in a long time,” she said. Her favorite encounter came when she was having a terrible day. They’d stop her in the street for a chance to meet her. It wasn’t long before Allison started getting recognized. “We don’t cap it off at just Jeep Everybody needs kindness," said Allison. Within just a couple of weeks, Allison had 10,000 followers on Facebook.ĭucking Jeeps was a game with seemingly boundless variety. Almost overnight, her spur-of-the-moment gag skyrocketed. ![]() “We figured it would go around town, make a few people happy, and then die out,” Allison said. Said, ‘You need to put this on social media.’” So she did. On a lark, she wrote “nice jeep” on one of the ducks, and put it on the stranger’s vehicle. As Allison left the store, she noticed a Jeep in the parking lot. That seemingly random sequence of events led directly to a worldwide cultural phenomenon that shows no signs of slowing down. For a parting gift to her supportive friend, she popped into a local shop and bought a bag of rubber ducks to hide around his house as a joke before she left. But her friend eventually convinced her to keep going, heading farther north to her family’s home. “Is this what it’s gonna be like all the way home?” Arriving at her destination, she found herself so upset, she didn’t even want to leave the house. “It scared the crap out of me.”Īllison quickly decided to get gas elsewhere and left town as fast as she could. ![]() “A guy approached, told me I was a dirty American spreading Covid and just wanted to hurt people,” Allison said. As she was getting ready to fuel her pride and joy, a 2018 Jeep Wrangler Sahara she’d just bought, she suddenly found herself in the middle of an angry encounter. She never expected the welcome she got when she stopped for gas in a small Canadian town. A dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Allison decided to travel from her home in Clanton, Alabama to visit family and friends in Ontario. But that’s exactly what happened after a terrible road trip from the southern United States to her native Canada during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. So of course, we HAD to reach out to the creator of Jeep Ducking to find out what this is all about, straight from the source.Īllison Parliament didn’t set out to become an internationally known Jeep celebrity. Funny enough, the Managing Editor of Car Talk was ducked while on a hike within a few months of the start of the phenomenon. Jeep Ducking has become so popular, it grabbed the attention of Car Talk in no time at all. ![]() A single impulsive act that, in the best traditions of the modern internet, exploded worldwide seemingly overnight. But what exactly is it, and how did it begin? It all started, as such things often do, from a random event. The phrase and the movement behind it is a growing cultural phenomenon. But the new Jeep Ducking craze shows all the signs of becoming just as ubiquitous a tradition as the famous Jeep Wave.ĭo a search for “duck duck Jeep,” and you’ll get more than 20 million results. The wave has become so popular, Jeep decided to name their loyalty program, The Jeep Wave Program. Failing to wave or worse, to return a wave given you, is a faux-pas difficult to forgive, especially amongst the more old-school Jeep crowd. It’s something Jeepers take very seriously. ![]() For decades, the Jeep Wave has been a well-established Jeep tradition when one Jeep encounters another on the road (or better yet, off of it), both drivers wave at each other. Jeep owners are no strangers to automotive culture phenomena. Whatever side of that debate you are on, turns out, you’re wrong. “Duck duck goose?” “Duck duck grey duck?”
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