Originally posted by: v1001
I can't handle driving with my mom anymore. It's so stressful. On the freeway she is constantly watching all the other things on the side of the road and gazing off at the scenery. Littarally every minute or so she can be half way in the other lane. NEVER a streight line! serpentine for hundreds of miles. To make it worse she drives like 85 and TAILGATES like no other. Every single car. I mean like 85 and only feet from the bumper until they move over.
Almost every single time I go with her somewhere she'll not realize there was a stop sign or not realize when a lane merges etc. Constantly almost causes an accident. And then will be like "whats this idiot honking at me for??". It's only because the other people were paying attention that the accident is avoided. And she always says she's a good driver she has no accidents. Yeah because the other people are watching out! It's amazing she's never been in a accident. Seems like thats how it is with a lot of women, horrible drivers but it's because of the other drivers on the road that they never pay for the bad driving. Most the time never knowing they did anything wrong.
i try not to go with my mum on long journeys for another reason. she will not go over 60mph, and in a rav4 since you are higher up you need to really look hard to ascertain if you are making any forward progress.
that and she is batshit scared of big lorries.....yet she will undertake them (which is a stupid idea because trucks have pretty nasty blind spots on that side of the vehicle). i was like your scared of these things running into you yet your putting yourself in a situation where exactly that has more chance of happening? )oh btw, our trucks are limited to 56mph)
also if shes along side a lorry (on the proper side this time) and it indicates to move out and overtake another lorry, she gets all panicy there as well and almost instantly sets about trying to get out of the way by swtiching lanes or braking! braking on the motorway in steady traffic!
seriously its not like they dont know you are there, especially when on the drivers side, he's got a pretty good chance of knowing where you are. you just stay there till you overtake or if your gonna move dont hurry yourself about it.
you dont need man the battlestations just because he put his blinker on
Also there are NO good WOMEN rally drivers (WRC), none.... infact there are rarely any good drivers at all unless they are from Finland where males are born with the ability to tap dance on 3 pedals, and perform a scandanavian flick before they are even able to converse.