To think my mum is perfectly capable of driving DS to school in our car?

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We are going to a wedding in Sept, mum is looking after DS, which she has done a few times for a weekend.
She will have to pick him up from school on Friday and drop him off on Monday

DH doesn't want her driving our car
Fair enough its a big 2.7L engine, but mum has driven lots of station wagons/estates over the years
She has never had an accident. She's a very young 65. Extremely capable

Dh wants her to go in a cab.
It's a couple of miles away.
She doesn't know the drive yet, but will obviously make sure she's fine with it.

Is he being a bit precious?

You have had this car since your DS was a baby and he is now school age, so it is not as though it has just been driven out of the showroom.

It reminds me of an old school friend who, when she bought her first car (a bit of a banger TBH), made a big point of attaching some sort of manual locking device to it (showing my age!). I was out with her once and she parked this vehicle between a Porsche and a Mercedes and faithfully applied the lock. I had to laugh. This sort of behaviour is sort of understandable in a teenager, but hardly acceptable in a grown man and father.

It sounds as though there are other issues in your relationship.

He's being a dick.

your mum is doing you a HUGE favour and all he can say is ooh, she can't use the car, she might prang it.

She's looking after your child for the whole weekend AND doing a couple of school runs so that you can have a weekend away, you nob. She should be using the bloody car if she wants to and you should be buying her chocs and wine!

in case that wasn't clear, that was to him I am not calling you a nob.

Thank you all
Yes you mad me laugh with some of the comments too
Over the years he has kicked up a fuss about some strange things, which usually blow over, but he can be very stubborn