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pete black

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who does the driving when together, you or the wife. i have an able bodied bil whose wife is always the driver. i and my wife prefer that i do the driving.
 
I drive and my wife gets nervous and puts her foot through the floor on her 'pretend' brake pedal!!!! Then I get mad and tell her she should drive, but she refuses. So, the cycle continues!
 
(quoted from post at 11:12:32 04/24/14) who does the driving when together, you or the wife. i have an able bodied bil whose wife is always the driver. i and my wife prefer that i do the driving.
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ecause my wife drives 'digitally". No smoothness. Either on the gas hard or off. No continuous steering corrections. Either bump left or bump right. Path down road would look like it was cut with pinking-shears. Drives me nuts!
 
I drive most of time. Wife will drive if we get away from cities she likes open road driving. But I have to keep track of were we are going wife has no since of direction and can't read a map.
 
My wife is a good driver, and I"m the better navigator. Found that out the hard way one dark night in Cincinnati......she can"t react quickly enough re: is this the right exit? Worse yet, changes her mind when I"m about to turn. On long trips I map the route the night before, wherever we"re staying. We usually alternate driving every three hours, but on a recent NO trip she did most, cuz as a passenger I can squirm and adjust for bad hip/back issues.
 
Depends. In her car or the van, she does most of the driving. In my truck, I drive. The seats in her car dont fit me, and my back hurts when I drive it. I can ride in it and be OK, but I cant drive it long. The van, well, I can stand the thing! Roof hits my head, everything is positioned for short people, arm rests etc. I can ride in it fine because I can move the seat enough to be more comfortable. Nobody drives my truck but me. They know how upset I get when my seat is out of whack, because it takes me forever to gt it back right.
 
I do 95 percent of the driving. It takes a act of congress to get her behind the wheel. Really pizzes her off that I can drive somewhere once and remember how to get there 10 yrs later In the dark in a monsoon.
 
About 20 years ago I went to France on a Manitou factory visit. On the way back we stayed overnight in Paris and had to make our own way back to the airport the other side of the city. Four of us got a taxi, three in the back and myself in the front next to the driver. As you lads know we drive on the left side of the road so by the time we got to the airport I had nearly punched a hole in the cab floor working the imaginary brake pedal. MJ
 
If we take her vehicle, she drives. If we take my vehicle, I drive.

On long hauls, we'll swap off.
 
I do 90% of the driving - I just do it from the passenger seat.

slow down, watch out for that guy, turn up here, why are you so close to this guy, you should be in that lane...
 
I drive 99% of the time even in bigger cities because there isn't enough Dramamine for me to take because of her quick stop and goes and speedy turns. lol. Either her foot is hard on the gas or stomping on the brakes, but she is a lot better now than she used to be.
 
I do 95%+ of the driving. Between about 1000 hours per year on tractors and being single until I was 30, it just feels -wrong- to be a passenger.
 
I drive most of the time- she has a tendency to take a nap, regardless of time of day. I have a car (Buick), she has a pickup. I just prefer driving a car to a pickup- always have. But I usually drive, regardless of which vehicle.

As far as navigating, I got a talking Garmin the other day- will never take a trip in strange country without it. Wife is a decent navigator when she wants to be, but tends to lose focus and we end up back-tracking.
 
Over the past 25 or so years my ex-wife and I have driven to almost every major city in the U.S.---all separate trips, probably totaling more than 100,000 miles. I drove 99,000 of those. It was a mutual choice, even though she's as good a driver as I.

My new lady friend is a different story. By nature she's jittery as a wren, and she drives with one foot on the brake and one on the gas, alternately touching each one, or both at the same time. Gives me the fantods. Fortunately, she usually asks me to drive her car.
 
I usually drive.My wife is a good driver just likes excessive speed a little too much for my likings.

Vito
 
It's 43 miles one way to work, I drive both ways, she snoozes, both ways. I do all the driving on long trips, about 13-14 hrs. is my limit, so that gets us to the national llama show in Des Moines or to antiquing country in New England, without stopping for the night.
 
If I wanted my wife to drive I'd get one of those British cars with the steering wheel on the right.

Seriously,the only time she drives with me with her,is if she comes to the field to pick me up and she's already behind the wheel.
 
When I'm behind the wheel my wife's a backseat driver, er, well the passenger seat driver-- "don't cut the turn so short"... "you ran that light red"... "don't go so fast".
 
I do 95 percent of the driving. It takes a act of congress to get her behind the wheel. Really pizzes her off that I can drive somewhere once and remember how to get there 10 yrs later In the dark in a monsoon.
 
In their driving course, AARP recommends sharing the driving equally so both can keep up their driving skills. Then if something happens to one of them, the other can still keep on driving.
 
hehe, husband does 99% of the driving from the passenger seat. i always insist on driving because husbands driving, drives me nuts. ever notice that guy on the highway going 40mph in a 70 zone ? ok, back off ladies, he's taken, that's him !!! that's my husband !!! the last 18 miles home is country road, posted speed is 50 mph, 99.99999% of folks go 60, he may at times peak at 39, so were torquing along at 39 mph and he hits the brakes and says " y'know what i was thinking ? " now were doing 20mph so i use my old cigarette to light a new one and respond " no, honey, what was you thinking ?" the whole time knowing it has nothing with getting us home this century. actually he prefers to let me drive, cause he hates to see me chain smoke. in the last 6 months i have been letting him drive sometimes because I've had 5 surgery's and the hospital won't release me unless i have someone to drive me home. it seems that when im sedated enough and asleep most of the time his driving doesn't bother me that much.
 
We were in italy for a vacation.

had to take a taxi back to the airport.

I knew we were screaming along pretty quickly on the highway, but when we got home I did the conversion from kph to mph to see exactly how fast we were going.

That guy had us up to 110 mph on the highway.
 
When we go somewhere together, I usually drive, because my wife wants me to. I know that she is a good driver and is totally capable, but she wants me to drive.

She is going to have cataract surgery in the next few months and her night vision has suffered some. I don"t think she has driven almost at all in the dark for the last year or so. So I have needed to go some places at night that she normally would have gone to alone. I hope the surgery and lens replacement will make her feel able to drive at night again.
 
If I don't have a Garmin or Tom Tom going from Spokane to Umatilla, I always get lost going through Tri-Cities. (My oldest lives in Spokane.)
 
GREAT QUESTION!!!! I've noticed that as "couples" get older meaning in the late 60-70s.. the female takes over alot of the time. For me and the misses I do the driving 100% of time..were both not quite 50.. Even if traveling I wont give it up or split the time..My Gma drove everywhere..Gpa just rode shotgun and sast her..my folks are in their 70's and Dad still drives mostly..
 
As the only member in the family who has not wrote off a car/truck, I always drive for selfpreservation. Never can understand why others drive the way they do, but they will not do it with me in the passenger seat. Wife has driven home with me highly medicated(too many barley pops] a few times, but I just close my eyes, and hope for the best.
 
It depends for us, in the wife's car usually our three year old dictates who should drive, mommy or daddy. Most of the time I drive though unless she's picking me up or its a short trip. I cannot stand how she drives therefore I used to be very leery of letting her drive my pickup if the once in a great while occurred and she asked to use it. Now that I have a new pickup it's like she knows better to even ask to drive it, besides that we both have different ideas on how you take care of our vehicles, for my pickup it gets washed every week or so depending on how much its been driven and the inside still looks and smells like new, for my wife on the other hand complete opposite wash it maybe every three months or so, the dash is dusty and she's always gotta move a pile of junk off the seat before I can get in :evil:
 
"Sound familiar? "

Too familiar. Hoe many times have I heard "Turn right here...No! Not that way, the other way. Turn Left"
 
Even though wife is a good driver, I usually drive-always if in the dually 6 speed manual. Wife wouldn't even try it in big parking lot despite my urging. We were at breakfast several years ago, about 60 miles from home when my back locked up, couldn't move and had to be put in truck (passenger seat)-naturally the dually. As I was pondering whom to call to help get us home, wife climbed into the driver's seat and adjusted things to her satisfaction. When I asked what she was doing, she said she'd get us home. OH NO!! How would I survive the anticipated wreck/jolting while essentially immobile? (LOL). She did a GREAT job, smooth, flowed with traffic, and only missed one shift all the way home. Found out later that her college car was a 4 speed manual. Now I don't worry about it, because when the chips are down, she'll get-er-done!
 
Depends; I drive if we take my truck. She drives if we take the van. I don't drive it often enough to know where all the buttons are. Give me pull on headlights and a dimmer switch on the floor and I'm happy. On long trips I drive either vehicle. She does help some but I ALWAYS drive around Chicago. She doesn't like all the traffic.

Larry
 
Its really funny. I almost always drive locally. But if we are out of town and have a rental car I almost never drive. Don't know why that is. We don't even talk about it, it just happens that way. Probably due to me refusing to stand in the rental car line--must be the worst line ever for me.
 
Ditto. She's even told me when to turn onto the street on which we've lived for 15+ years. And what drives me crazy is that she'll offer a suggestion if she's only 10% certain. Worst of all is that I'll follow her suggestion every time if I'm anything less than 100% certain.
 
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(quoted from post at 11:12:32 04/24/14) who does the driving when together, you or the wife. i have an able bodied bil whose wife is always the driver. i and my wife prefer that i do the driving.
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ecause my wife drives 'digitally". No smoothness. Either on the gas hard or off. No continuous steering corrections. Either bump left or bump right. Path down road would look like it was cut with pinking-shears. Drives me nuts!
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Oh man! I used to ride nights with a girl who drove like that. I finally told her to use the cruise control, set it at 55 and try that. It was even worse because she'd hit the brake near every corner or dip in the road. You'd get sea sick riding with her! :shock:

My wife is a decent driver, but she prefers I drive so she can devote full time to screaming at the kids and grand kid, adjusting the heat to it's maximum level of burn or the AC to frostbite (generally she switches between the 2 continuously), telling me to watch out for things I saw 4 seconds ago and occasionally pointing out I'm going too fast, too slow, in the wrong lane, in the right lane, that I missed an entrance to someplace we weren't going in the first place and stuff like that. We've been driving together like this since 1977. You get used to it.
 
If in a hurry? She drives......I don't watch....We'll either survive or we won't...but we'll get there on time.

Winter, I always drive. Northern women are winter tough, but it seems they get so scared then. So, I drive.
Actually seen a few start to cry in bad winter driving conditions.
And nobody or nothing is allowed to make her cry......
 
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