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Do you complain about your spouse's driving?
jimdeere
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Yes I do. No, it does not help.
Only once...I won't make that mistake again 😲
For the record, my bride drives just fine !!!! Just ask her.... No really she is a good driver...
No spouse, so I just complain about other women drivers !! 😎
No, but I get real tired of her complaining about mine!☹️
I just don't ride with her.
true story
I use to drive every where wife just rode along told me she did not driving in heavy traffic or similar places
then about 35 years ago she took over driving 99.9% of the time
one day she told me she figured out it was me scaring the crap out of her . not the other traffic ( I was / well may still be a aggressive driver ) I was one of the people who could not stand for any one to be in front of me , yes i have passed the highway patrol and got pulled over for a butt chewing a few times.
I use to tell the people at work they thought I was making it up but when our group would get together for some event the noticed my wife always drove .. and realized I was telling the truth
I still remind my wife she is the one who totaled out a blazer we had and also while on vacation one year in south Carolina
while parking down town . the fellow who owned the lot was telling my wife how to park and get as close as possible
he reaches thru the drivers window and grabbed the steering wheel cut the wheel sharp to show her to get closer then looked over at me and said women. Thay just can not drive😲 ,my wife at the time as I were very young it caught my wife off guard but I was LMAO
she said if some one did that now they would not have a arm to pull back out of the truck LOL
it took me a while to get use to it as I loved to drive it was like a huge game to me
but over time I just get in shut up , sleep or read and tell her let me know when we get there
its to the point I have no idea where we are at. some times how or what route we took to get to our destination.
she is a very careful driver maybe to point of too careful, but I have learned to just keep my mouth shut
A Brownie is an auxiliary transmission mounted behind the main tranny in a class A truck. These are called a duplex. This allows you to split each main gear four times. I.E. a five speed main box can become a 20 speed when using a secondary transmission. When shifting gears this requires using both hands, usually the left hand is thrust through the steering wheel. My wife can hammer down a Kenworth pullin' 80,000 pounds plus!!!!!!!!! Some trucks have triplexes and require three hands to shift........no kidding!!! Ask Horse Plains.
My wife (retired LEO) still drives like she's on her way to a bank robbery in progress. Everywhere. Hard on the throttle then hard on the brake. I've tried explaining how her brakes and tires wouldn't need to be replaced at twice the rate as those on my pickup if she'd just go easy on the pedals but to no avail.
I really hate to ride with my wife driving. The only way I can do it is to try to take a nap while she rams and jerks her way around.
Joe
No spouse and Cookie is only allowed to drive the side by side. So, no complaints from the peanut gallery. Anywhere friends and I travel, to include hundreds of miles at a stretch, I do all the driving.
Truck has almost 150,000 miles on it. Only on second set of tires and had brakes checked prior to pulling my camper over 1500 miles last month. All good.
My wife is a good driver, now that I retrained her. She used to speed up & coast, speed up & coast, thinking she was saving on gas. Made me nauseous.
I was an aggressive driver, specially on the highways & took stupid risks. We rarely drive on a highway now and I've slowed down. I even appreciate when she politely points out signs & other vehicles, etc. while I'm driving.
+1 here
She won't let me drive. Don't know WHY. I drove Staff cars in the Army and took professional classes at Mercedes.
And when she drives I have to keep my mouth shut and read a book or keep my eyes closed. If there is an accident I won't know any thing,
No spouse but I complain a lot. I drove commercial vehicles of all kinds for more than forty years. Until cell phones are completely out of drivers hands nobody is safe on the roads.
My wife drives like a grandma. Slow and often in the wrong lane. I once, ONCE, made the comment that if she's gonna hog the passing lane she should at least leave her signal on.
She didn't think it was nearly as funny as I did.
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
I have to bite my tongue alot. She speeds on side streets. Then when we're out on the express way she does the speed limit!!! I just hate getting behind someone doing the speed limit😣
Not while she's driving.....
I know the feeling, but it's way more aggravating on a two-lane than it is on the freeway.
Gas......brake......gas......brake.....etc. Yep.....Neo.....I know EXACTLY what you mean.
I seriously think that the word......COAST......does NOT exist in the female lexicon!🤯😎
Only in my mind.
We both hate each others driving abut lately but my wife does pretty much the same things I do.