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Husband is a front seat driver. What does your DH/DP do?

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lifebeginsat16 · 09/06/2018 18:30

When I'm driving, my husband acts as if he's in charge. He says he's just trying to be helpful:
Gives instructions (the lights are going green - he says 'you can go now')
On a route I know really well ('turn left here', 'get ready to turn right just ahead')
Operating the car ('change down here', 'signal here', 'overtake now')
Running commentary ('why did you slow down then?')
This one really gets me - he signals to other motorists on my behalf. I don't always see he's done it and have nearly come to grief. (What other driver heeds the passenger btw??) THEN he shakes his head in disbelief in sympathy with the other motorist.
Makes me crazy. I've been driving for over 40 years and I really am OK at it. I'd rather just have a nice conversation while I get on with it.
What does yours do? How do you deal with it?

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DamnShesaSexyChick · 09/06/2018 18:32

Stop the car and tell him to get out and walk

SilverHairedCat · 09/06/2018 18:38

What do you do about it?

I'd be going batshit and making him walk!

Aprilshouldhavebeenmyname · 09/06/2018 18:39

Isn't that what the boot is for???

sanityisamyth · 09/06/2018 18:41

My ExH did this before he even had any lessons or passed his test. Once he passed he crashed so many times and wrote off so many cars (within 2 years) that I got quite nervous being a passenger with him. He then had the audacity to shout at me when I was checking his mirrors or looking over my shoulder, even though I didn't say anything to him to patronise him.

another reason he's an ExH

ShatnersBassoon · 09/06/2018 18:47

Mine accepts that I'm the superior driver and sits in stunned awe. I'm a pain in the arse when he's driving, with my foot going for the invisible brake and reminding him to get a shift on when he starts fogeying.

Parker231 · 09/06/2018 18:54

He either keeps quiet or you stop the car and he gets out and walks. Alternatively he drives or gets a lift from someone else.

Effendi · 09/06/2018 19:50

My DH drives for a living so when we go anywhere together he doesn't want to drive. So I do.
He used to try to micro manage my driving because, you know, he is the professional and I'm just a lowly normal driver. It got so bad that one day I pulled over, gave him both barrels and told him to STFU or get out and walk.

Nowadays he just says I drive like a Cypriot and leaves it at that (we live in Cyprus).

I'm not a novice, I've been driving since 1991 and do 200 km a day!

SamHeughansLeftEyebrow · 09/06/2018 19:54

My 12 year old DS does this. From him, it is amusing, in a 12 year old way. From an adult, not so much. I'd have had to say something the first time he did it. Thankfully, my DH acknowledges that I am a better driver than him.

trumpetoftheswan · 09/06/2018 19:56

My dh used to do this, despite me asking him repeatedly not to as it's distracting, and actually dangerous to be shouting 'stop!!' at someone driving because there's a zebra crossing coming up 50 yard.

After a particularly dreadful experience on the M4 a few years ago, I refuse to drive with him in the car. I only ever drove with him in the car when he wanted a break, but I absolutely refuse to do it now, aside from the very short (10 mins) drive home from somewhere if I've not drunk.

So journeys need more planning, take longer etc but I honestly couldn't bear it anymore. Not particularly because it makes me feel stupid, but because distracting a driver is dangerous.

Hamandcheesebaguette · 09/06/2018 20:00

Jesus Christ this would drive me UP THE WALL. I would pull over and refuse to drive anymore with him in the car!!!!!

DP secretly checks my mirrors and junctions which irritates me beyond belief but doesn't say anything.

To be fair I have only been driving for a year and haven't crashed except for reversing it into a wall after 1 week of owning the car.

But still... I think that woukd drive me mad to the point of crashing it on purpose (not really but still)

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