Monday, April 11, 2005
Driving Etiquette
I hate to drive...always have I didn't even consider getting my lisence until I was eighteen, in fact I got it the morning of my high school graduation, I always had friends like sheri who would cart my ass around and my dad would always let us use a car...but I degress. What this post was actually getting to was that even though I hate driving, or maybe because I hate driving, I am a very patient rider, in fact I have been the passenger through permits with both of my kids and the children of several of my friends. My husband, normally a very nice man, is the worlds WORST passenger, we've been married for 22 years and I still HATE to have him in the passenger seat. He also gets road rage very easily and is impatient when behind the wheel...he becomes a totally different person. BOTH of my kids have always hated driving with him. Well yesterday we took a family trip to Orono to see our son, this is only about a 1.5 hour trip, on good roads, a little bit of interstate nothing exceptional. Our daughter, 16 and recently a licensed driver, wanted to drive. Now I ride with her all the time, she is a very good driver, cautions, calm, I have never had to yell at her or grab the wheel or anything like that. Hubby, however has a big problem with her driving, they bickered the entire trip until I was ready to kill them both. If she was going 70 on the interstate it was too fast, if she was going 65 it was too slow, if she passed a car...SLOW DOWN! If she didn't pass it was....YOU'RE GOING TO GET BOXED IN! There was absolutely NOTHING she could do right. Tell me, if you know, how an otherwise kind, sweet, loving man can become a total asshole in the car?
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