To think DH could have not gone to the gym for once?

[LoveInAColdClimate]

I probably am! It's absolutely pouring with rain here. DH has the car (we work a few minutes away from each other but went in at different times today). I asked him for a lift home but he wants to spend an hour in the gym in town first. I need to get home to cook supper and sort out some washing. I'm not a confident enough driver to drive home through rush hour traffic in the rain and wet. As a result, I am spending half an hour on the bus, following a fifteen minute walk across town that has left me (and my poor Bayswater) soaked. I am sitting next to a scary man who is talking to himself. I have another walk to go when I get off the bus. AIBU to think DH could have sacked off the gym just this once to give me a lift and save me from the horrible rain and bus? I probably am - being wet and cold isn't bringing out the best in me!

Stop being such a wuss! Get some practise in driving!

Hopefully this post will annoy you enough to "woman up" ;)

You need advanced driving lessons. Having said that it's greener to take the bus and you get a healthy little walk too

If you can't drive in rush hour & rain then you shouldn't have a licence.

I'm with Laurie.

You're quite right! Just having a gripe really . I learnt to drive in the countryside - am ace at reversing down narrow lanes, terrible at big roundabouts! Have had some city driving lessons but still not confident when it's very busy.

Couldn´t he have given yo a lift home & then gone to the gym

I was ready to say YANBU until I read that you chose not to take the car. Sorry!

Perhaps do some wet weather practice next time it's raining and you're free.

Haven't you just wasted an hour struggling home? Seems to me would have made more sense for you to have waited for him.

G&T - I do worry about that! Pretty sure wouldn't pass if I had to retake my test tomorrow... perhaps I should have even more city driving lessons. DH says I am actually fine and very safe and is just confidence, but I do find it quite terrifying... [utter quad emoticon]

Sorry but if you could have taken car but chose not to, then YABU to whinge about it.

Rain in Britain isn't filed under "just this once"

yabu

Er, should have read [utter wuss] back there! Now home and dry so have stopped sulking and wondering instead what to about the fact that the postman has wedged a package so firmly in the letterbox that I can neither push nor pull it out...

2011 will have to be the year of improving my driving (just like 2010 was meant to be... )

Have some respect for The Bayswater. It needs you

Indeed, tattydevine! You'd think as he bought it for me DH would have more protective instincts!

I think YANBU

Presumably your DH knows that you're not a confident driver. And you also want to improve. But that doesn't help you right now (or when you were at work tonight).

I know that sometimes I just can't cope with doing something. And I appreciate it when my DH recognises that I need help with something. Even if it is a bit irrational.

So it would have been nice if he'd acknowledged that and helped you get home.

I think it is far from the truth to say the OP shouldn't have a licence. Come on. When it is blowing a gale and tipping it down with rain, she is being wise for saying she's not up to it.

Without knowing the details of when the OP got her licence or whatever, I would say that the majority of my real "learning" to drive came after I'd got my licence. Seriously.

I agree with Tatty. Driving lessons literally teach you to drive. Real driving is once you've passed your test. Get out there & drive, go on!