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Who's the worst driver in your family? (Original Post) Archae Jan 2012 OP
my daughter maddezmom Jan 2012 #1
My brother drives with his knees sometimes... Neoma Jan 2012 #2
my husband boston bean Jan 2012 #3
My grandmother. She's dead. REP Jan 2012 #4
My youngest son. femmocrat Jan 2012 #5
My sister Mopar151 Jan 2012 #6
I tried to set her up with driving school Mopar151 Jan 2012 #7
Does she only turn left? laconicsax Jan 2012 #8
My mom sakabatou Jan 2012 #9
My parents don't drive. Neither do I anymore. I was getting worse and worse as time applegrove Jan 2012 #10
My cat Toonces. Joe Shlabotnik Jan 2012 #11
Me. BiggJawn Jan 2012 #12
I've had the most wrecks. Solly Mack Jan 2012 #13
I quit driving in '84... Iggo Jan 2012 #14
My wife guitar man Jan 2012 #15
I have to chose one? quakerboy Jan 2012 #16
My girlfriend and my sister both UnrepentantLiberal Jan 2012 #17
My cat - I keep telling him not to take the keys. HopeHoops Jan 2012 #18
My oldest sister has always been pretty awful. Breaking and swerving at phantoms only she sees. alphafemale Jan 2012 #19
Me. Chan790 Jan 2012 #20
My aunt MorningGlow Jan 2012 #21
My husband...when his mother jokingly told him to go play in traffic...he took it to heart. madmom Jan 2012 #22
Easily, my brother. easttexaslefty Jan 2012 #23

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
3. my husband
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 09:16 PM
Jan 2012

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!

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
5. My youngest son.
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 09:42 PM
Jan 2012

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)
6. My sister
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 10:39 PM
Jan 2012

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)
7. I tried to set her up with driving school
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 10:54 PM
Jan 2012

'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

sakabatou

(42,148 posts)
9. My mom
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 12:17 AM
Jan 2012

There's a reason why she named her car, "James May."

But my oldest brother drives a lil crazy.

applegrove

(118,622 posts)
10. My parents don't drive. Neither do I anymore. I was getting worse and worse as time
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 12:29 AM
Jan 2012

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.

BiggJawn

(23,051 posts)
12. Me.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 01:33 AM
Jan 2012

I haven't killed anybody and haven't wrecked a car in over 20 years, but popular opinion is that my driving sucks balls.

 

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)
17. My girlfriend and my sister both
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 06:27 AM
Jan 2012

wait till the last second to hit the breaks when approaching a car stopped at a red light. It freaks me out every time.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
19. My oldest sister has always been pretty awful. Breaking and swerving at phantoms only she sees.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 10:52 AM
Jan 2012

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?

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
20. Me.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:04 AM
Jan 2012

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)
21. My aunt
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 11:09 AM
Jan 2012

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.

easttexaslefty

(1,554 posts)
23. Easily, my brother.
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 05:26 PM
Jan 2012

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?

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