an aggressive driver, can't stand traffic, yells at people who don't hear him anyway, and is also a back-seat driver when not in the driver's seat? How do you deal with that person? Can't kill them...can't whack them upside the head....
2007-12-14 03:02:00 · 29 answers · asked by Lady G 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
I used to be married to one! Hated it, wanted to get out of the car many, many times. I hate it when I am driving and people are telling me how to drive, what lane to go into, how fast to go or pulling on my seat and tilting it backwards when I drive. That ticks me off, or when someone is telling me go right, no left, no right, no left....for Pete's sake make up your mind!
I got a restricted drivers license at 14, regular at 15, am 57, only one speeding ticket in Iowa (someone telling me to drive faster). This person has tons of tickets! I just wanted to smack the crap out of him....
2007-12-14 03:11:05 · answer #1 · answered by slk29406 6 · 7⤊ 0⤋
It's usually me!!! Except when I am in the other seat, I let the driver do what they do. It is only when I drive that I yell and scream and swear at every other driver who thinks they can drive but can't on the road with me. Any other time I am the nicest person in the world. Put me behind the world and I am Godzilla!!
2007-12-14 11:39:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh, Lady G - you make me laugh...because I am that person!!! I am not a back seat driver, but I can be aggressive, and a lot of time you will hear me muttering: "I hate all you people driving. Have you GONE to driver's ed? Or did you just print your license off the computer??" Then there are the times (daily) where I am screaming: "GET OUT OF MY WAY! TURN TURN TURN! WHAT THE (BEEP) ARE YOU (BEEP) WAITING FOR? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE (BEEP) ON RAMP IS FOR?????" But other than that, I am a pretty nice person. =) Quite frankly, I don't know how people riding with me deal with me.
It has embarrassed me though - when I was first seeing my old boyfriend, who is just the sweetest nicest guy you could ever wish to meet, I was leaving a dr. appointment and had phoned him to let him know what time we could meet, etc...Mind you, this is like, our 3rd date...I get his voice mail, and start to say, Hi Doug, this is Luana...and that is about all I got out when someone cut me off. The expletives flew, I went into a rant and screamed the next two miles away. When the guy who cut me off was out of sight, and therefore out of mind, I calmed right down and after about 20 seconds said, "Oh...I am leaving you a voice mail." I had completely forgotten I was on the phone. (I have a Bluetooth, so I wasn't holding the phone to my ear.) At that point, I was so flustered that I just said, "Call me back...if you still want to..." and hung up. It occured to me later that I probably could have scratched that voice mail and left him a different one....
2007-12-14 11:13:43 · answer #3 · answered by IJToomer 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My husband. He gets mad when other drivers pass him. He
hates to be passed. Must be a guy thing. If someone gets
ahead of him and slows down, you don't want to be in that
car with him. He tells me how to drive, as if I've never driven
before. I've been driving for over 40 years. I just tune it out. When he's driving, he's a very good driver, but he does get mad. He won't ask directions. He'll drive for miles before admitting he doesn't know the way.
2007-12-14 11:36:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm married to one!
Unfortunately, he had a couple of small strokes back last January and lost his license for a year so I have been sole driver of his car (we can't use mine because he can't get in and out of it easily). We've nearly had a divorce a couple of times because "I'm kicking the butt out his car/wrecking his gears/parking on the slant/driving too fast or too slow, and so on". After I stopped the car a few months ago opened his door and suggested he got a taxi because I'd had enough; we've now agreed that my second-class driving is a lot better than his first-class walking!
2007-12-14 11:53:27 · answer #5 · answered by Veronica Alicia 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am SURE I drive in traffic with ALOT of people just like that!
I see them zooming down the freeway over 55 where the fines are doubled being it is a work zone, do they care? NOPE. Then I get the ones who pull right up on my tail , can't get around me, and I can SEE them in my rearview mirror looking VERY exasperated!
LUCKILY, I do NOT have a family member who is quite like that THOUGH my cousin IS one of those who will ride your tale end! SCARY!
2007-12-14 11:45:31 · answer #6 · answered by MBlessed (SOC) 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kill them no...whack them upside the head, sure as long as you knock them out and they didn't see that it was you who whacked them. When they wake up just pretend it was some random crazy person or a meteor falling from outer space. They will believe you, and you will have your revenge.
2007-12-14 11:07:46 · answer #7 · answered by ppw1024 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have found the easiest way to handle them is to stop the car, get out, tell them to drive...works everytime! I then get to ride instead of concentrate on traffic...but I have to keep my eyes closed, for he drives like the demon from hell! So far, in his life, he has never gotten into an accident, so what can I say...sorry to say, I wish I could say that about me! Phil
2007-12-16 20:13:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son-in-law was an aggressive driver until his first child was born. He changed overnight. The fact that I told him if he didn't I'd hurt him bad may have had something to do with the change, I don't know.
2007-12-14 14:06:18 · answer #9 · answered by Just Hazel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who says you can't whack em upside the head one good time?
2007-12-14 11:08:23 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋