Backseat driving
 

Is anyone here a backseat driver or knows someone that is one?These are the usual phrases I say when I'm in the car with my youngest brother or my father.

"Slow down!"

"You should drive 1 car length per 10 miles behind the car in front of you!"

"Look out, there's a 18-wheeler!"

"Slow down"

"Do not do a U-turn at this busy intersection!"

"Get off your cell phone and focus on driving!"

"Slow down!"

"Break! There's a car in front of us!"

"Do you care if I drink this in your car?"

Have you been driving my mom around?

ohh yeah don't forget "turn down the radio, it is too loud!"--my response is "yeah mom, i already turned it down before you got in the car"

-wendi

My stepdad is always telling me to "Drive faster, dammit!"

As a passenger i usually just close my eyes and pray . . .

When I first got my permit, my dad would take me out driving. I had always seen him go ten miles over the speed limit so I thought it was okay for me to do so as well. So one day we're out and I begin driving 45 in a 35 mph zone and he tells me to slow it down. I said "but you always drive 45 here." and he said "Yeah well dont do what I do, do what I tell you."

I'm a backseat/passenger seat driver when it comes to riding with my mom. She drives nutty and makes you feel like you're riding a damn rollercoaster, nto to mention how often and scarily she hugs the curb. I'm scared of her driving and I no longer ride with her.

As for my car I have a few simple rules:
1) Must wear seat belt.
2) No smoking of anything or drinking alcohol in my car
3) No drugs in my car
4) No complaining about the music (type or volume)
5) NO yelling at the driver while I'm driving. (I dont care if they yell at me out of the car, but not while i'm driving).

I cannot STAND this, my old roommate was the worst.

"Go around him."

"Turn here, it's faster"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

It drove me nuts. That was the only time we ever argued.

"Are we hitching on to the bumper of that car in front of us or what?"

i'm definitely one of the worst backseat drivers ever - I can admit it! My parents had been driving (obviously) for YEARS before i ever got a license and as soon as i got it -"Mom slow down", "the light is gonna turn red!" and the worst is when i start pressing the "imaginary brakes" on the passenger side! i can't STAND when i'm driving and my mother is silently freaking out beside me! even though she's trying to be quiet i still know she's doing it!

I remember when I was around 15 and learning to drive...

My mother was in the front seat with me (as required by law).

I was pulling out onto the street. She cautioned me...

"Careful! Slow down! Red cars don't stop!" (as a red car was coming for us).

Best back seat driver line ever.

hahaha i was just going to say that because i think these ppl have been driving with my mom...... i am a grown adult with children and still cannot drive with her.

:D

Do NOT get me started with my sister and her "imaginary brake" BS. :rolleyes: I just wanna slap her azz! :mad:

I just learned to drive this past March, got my license in May, so I suppose my parents have some grounds to backseat drive a little bit. Still, the imaginary break is reeeeeeally annoying. When my mom starts freaking out about something, like "Erin! Watch where you're going! You almost hit that curb back there!", then it doesn't help me either, it just freaks me out and makes me nervous!

I can't stand when my passengers spaz out in my car. They'll sit there going, "Oh, crap" and "Oh my God...." when I'm not even close to hitting someone. Argh.

HATE that. Apparently I'm a pretty aggressive driver. Do you really think it's going to help when I'm minding my own business, near no cars, and you shout "WHOA " like there's a deer or something? Nothing like jumping 10 feet in the air in the name of 'safety'...

Fave phrase " Do you not see that CAR!!!"
or "Can you slow down, at least for my own safety if you don't care about yours"

if i don't stop soon enough for my mother, she will put her hand on my dashboard ready to brace herself in case she decided to fly out the window when i don't stop at a red light :rolleyes:

and my roomie usually tells me to drive faster or if someone cuts me off or whatever, she will honk my horn FOR ME!

They say you'll marry someone who reminds you of your parent of the same sex...

My father and my husband have to be the world's two worst back-seat drivers.

When I was learning to drive, my dad would take me out driving. He'd yell at me if I did 56 in a 55 zone. His favorite criticism was that I didn't stop long enough at stop signs. "Come to a full stop, and spell out the word S-T-O-P before you go." "Uh, Dad, the guy behind us is leaning on his horn and giving us the finger, can I please go now??" And heaven help me if I went through a yellow light, even if it turned yellow just as I was passing underneath. :rolleyes: (When he drives, if a light turns yellow, he slams on his brakes even if it's clear that he and the three cars behind him could make it through.)

My husband is the opposite type of back-seat driver. "You're not going fast enough! You should be doing at least 80!" "Honey, it's a 55. I'm doing 70." "Well, everyone's passing you, and -- wait! COP! COP! SLOW DOWN!"

Once I finally developed a lead foot, he started telling me that I drive too fast. :p

I'm really bad about backseat driving. I can't ride around with my girlfriend driving sober. Any other time I get stressed b/c of her driving...and then she get's stressed b/c of me...and it just all gets worse from there. What do you expect when you are driving with a girl that comes to a stop on in the merging lane on a highway!!

I will pull over and say ," hey you want to drive ?"to anyone in my car if they dont like the way i drive... It drives me nuts and makes me very very nervous.

Thank you! I say the same thing. Or: "I am driving so STFU!"

My husband contradicts himself all the time. I so hate it. One minute he will tell me that I am leaving too much space between me and the car in front of me and if I don't scoot up people will start cutting me off. Then if I get closer he starts yelling that I am not leaving a 2 second distance.

Last week he told me "Use you turn signal...That is what it is there for" when I was turning on a street that I had no option as to whether I wanted to turn or not.....So I told him "Shut your month.....That is what it is there for" He didn't talk to me the rest of the time.

No one does it to me thank god, I may speed a bit but I can handle icy roads and passing and what not. I always come to a complete stop behind the line. However, I do it to only one person. I had to dig her truck out of the snowbank after she put it there, so I have earned the right. She misses stop signs all the time, almost hit a bridge one night, is so close to taking out pedestrians, and cannot park worth a damn.

Of course she has to have HUGE Ford F-150 jacked up with 4x4 she can't handle.

You know what is worse that back seat drivers? Muthatrucks that get in my car and won't wear a damn seatbelt. If I catch them without it, the car gets pulled over. I am not replacing my windshield, or getting pulled over for a ticket because of their stupidity. These are college educated people, why not wear the damn seatbelt, it is free.