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Drive or ride along? |pad patter 6 feb 2019

I don't mind driving around town. For road trips, my husband drives. He likes to drive and is not a good passenger. We've been doing that so long that I prefer he drives now. But I do the mapping and driving directions for him. I didn't mind driving but as I got older, I prefer not to be a driver. I honestly can't wait until my son can drive :)
 
My husband does the driving when we are together... I will drive when I need to go somewhere. It is a big car and I do like drive too far in it.
I do not mind being the passenger and I either crochet or do puzzles when we drive a distance ( even our 25 minutes to go shopping). I also will have a nap on the way home.
 
This about the only thing my husband and I get annoyed with each other about! More than happy to be a passenger (front seat only - I still get car sick).
I don't mind driving and I do a lot of driving around town with kids and my mum lives over 400km's away so I drive down there quite a few times a year (when Dad was sick I would drive down at least once a month as well as driving them around - totaled over 12000 km's that year....) So I'm quite experienced BUT my husband assumes he is the better driver and still treats me as a learner. (last trip he leaned over and set the speed control for me!!) It is not a sexiest thing - his mother trained him to think he was better than everyone else - I have broken him of that illusion over everything else but driving!
My eldest brother is in charge of the traffic police for NSW and is a universally acknowledged terrible driver. Not a speeder but can't hold a speed to save himself (nope, won't use cruise control) - he mostly rides a motorbike or has a driver so I guess it works for him but I try to avoid being a passenger in his car.
 
SeattleSheri said:
You would absolutely hate my week! Monday morning I drove to the airport through snow and ice (let's just say Seattle isn't equipped to handle any amount of snow and it was a white-knuckle, slippery experience) ... I flew to Boston after 6+ hours of delay and then tomorrow I'm taking a train from Boston to NYC and then flying from JFK to Seattle on Friday evening, lol. Sigh. Planes, trains and automobiles ... but not in that order :fairydance
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I am turning a bit green just reading that, and that 6+ hours delay does not help! Safe trip coming back!
 
either or ... i really don't care. i like driving but i also like if going someplace new - having the luxury of looking around at everything. having navigation apps makes it easy to get anywhere these days so i'm pretty much down for anything! if driving in NYC though - that's a hard no. i can navigate just outside it - like JFK airport or going to the Bronx zoo, but can't deal with the aggressiveness of midtown driving.
 
It is Both for me too. I love driving but if my hubby is in the car he cannot stand to be the passenger so whatever. If we do long trips he loves to leave super early, like 4am so I go to sleep and about 5 hours into the trip I will drive for a couple hours as he naps then he takes the wheel again.
I do get carsick too so I need to be in the front seat... @jk703 I will have to try the coke
 
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