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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho's the worst driver in your family?
In my family, my sister.
I keep telling her the roads are NOT the same as a NASCAR track...
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)but she's only 11 and does it from the back seat.
Neoma
(10,039 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)he is a rubber necking fool, drive me absolutely batty!
I am the one watching the road going, ooooh, and he looks back slams on the brakes and says WHAT!
REP
(21,691 posts)Yet she drives better than 90% of SF Bay Area Drivers.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)He lives in the city and rides the bus, so he doesn't get enough practice. Or at least that's his story.
Mopar151
(9,980 posts)She's been in in therapy for it. She has serious trust issues with anybody else's steering, 'cuz the only steering she can relate to is hers.....
Mopar151
(9,980 posts)'Cuz I know Tim O'Neil, even talked to him about a course for drive-a-phobics like her. She won't go near it......
http://team-oneil.com/school.safety.htm
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)sakabatou
(42,148 posts)There's a reason why she named her car, "James May."
But my oldest brother drives a lil crazy.
applegrove
(118,622 posts)wore on and my ptsd continued. I actually have no desire to be in cars anymore, even as a passenger. I like to walk and am lucky I live close enough to downtown that I can walk everywhere.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I haven't killed anybody and haven't wrecked a car in over 20 years, but popular opinion is that my driving sucks balls.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Maybe it's me.
Iggo
(47,549 posts)...so I'm gonna hafta say it's me.
guitar man
(15,996 posts)I swear, she thinks stop signs are just a suggestion
quakerboy
(13,919 posts)Nope. Cant do it.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)wait till the last second to hit the breaks when approaching a car stopped at a red light. It freaks me out every time.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)Blowing through stop signs and red-lights that were wearing the cloak of invisibility.
Clouds of blueblack tire smoke rise at her passing. Her passengers huddle and cringe, afeared. Who knew that a simple trip to the market could be so...exciting?
I'm the only one without a license. I have issues with backing up and spacial-perception, which is ironic because I drive better going forward than most people, even in traffic at 90MPH. I usually drive slower than that, though I apparently drive fast for inner-city block-to-block driving. (I'm sorry that I can drive 45 safely in midtown traffic and most drivers suck.)
I grew up with gearheads and racers. I learned to drive on a road-track, in six-point restraint, wrecked a few and drove really really fast. Best way to learn to drive if you ask me, better than any of the driver's ed classes I had to take. No sixteen year old who has hit a wall doing 125MPH ever wants to do it again.
Now I just need to find a driving test with no backing into a parking space on it. I'd parallel park twice just to avoid it.
MorningGlow
(15,758 posts)She's a perfect example of how being too timid behind the wheel is just as dangerous as being overconfident. She drives a land yacht because she believes it'll protect her like an up-armored Hummer in a war zone. Trouble is, she can't control it. Drifting over the yellow line? That's her. 55 mph zone? She goes 40 or even slower. Nose against the windshield, foot hovering over the brake. She scares the living daylights out of me.
madmom
(9,681 posts)easttexaslefty
(1,554 posts)Terrible terrible driver. God only knows how many car accidents he's had in his 51 years. I would hate to have to pay his car insurance.
My mom was a sucky driver too and I'm not the greatest.
I wonder if it's genetic?