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Who drives when together, you or your wife/SO? (1 Viewer)

Who drives when together, you or wife/SO?

  • Me always

    Votes: 113 44.1%

  • Her always

    Votes: 4 1.6%

  • Even mix

    Votes: 11 4.3%

  • A mix, but more me

    Votes: 24 9.4%

  • A mix, but more her

    Votes: 17 6.6%

  • Usually me, her once in a while

    Votes: 84 32.8%

  • Usually her, me once in a while

    Votes: 3 1.2%
  • Total voters
    256
fantasycurse42

fantasycurse42

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Wife and I share a car, we've had it for 18 months... Today it just hit me that I've never sat in the passenger seat once, is this common? Wife always complains about everything when I'm driving, which is amazing since she is a bad driver, being a woman and all.

 
Wife is not a terrible driver, but hates driving so if we are together I am driving. Doesn't bother me though because I hate sitting in the passenger seat.

 
I do but that's how we both prefer it although I drive faster than she would like normally so I slow down when we are together. On trips I prefer to be driving as I don't sleep well in cars anyway and my wife prefers to ride.

 
mix, but mostly the mrs. i have a smaller car (4 seat coupe). just easier to take hers when we go out as a family.

 
When I'm on the road though, I see women driving and men in the passenger seat all the time - I often wonder, why?

I bet Barbara from the AR thread drives and Michael is the passenger.

 
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fantasycurse42 said:
When I'm on the road though, I see women driving and men in the passenger seat all the time - I often wonder, why?
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i do more driving during the week for my commute. it's attempt to let me "relax." it really doesn't matter to me, but sometimes it is nice to not have to deal with the idiot drivers out there.

 
18 years together, she's driven with me in the car four times. Twice when we were dating I was teaching her to drive a stick, once maybe a decade ago when I drank too much, once this summer when I was falling asleep behind the wheel coming home from the lake.

 
Driving in my home city has become worse and worse over the years and my wife loathes it. So I drive 100% of the time we are together. She retires in four months. I wouldn't be surprised if she just turned in her license.

 
My car, me. Her car, it can go either way, she drives on short trips I do the long. The reason is there is no sense changing the mirrors and seat for a 2 minute dash someplace. I'd guess I have driven 95+% of the miles, but she may have driven on 20% of the times we have been together in the car.

 
I always drive my car. She might drive hers to dinner but after a drink or two I am driving her car home.

 
We typically only drive together when going out to some social event and she's typically the dd so I drive there and she drives back.

 
I drive most of the time but if I'm tired and she volunteers, I have no problem with her driving. Is this supposed to be a measuring stick for how big your #### is?

 
Weekdays: she drives, since it's adjusted for her.

Weekends: I adjust it for me and drive.

Road trips: I drive 75%+. She's happier with me driving on road trips and doesn't nag.

Lately she does turtle into Facebook and leave me isolated if I'm driving, though - sucks.

 
It is mostly me. But I have had several surgeries on my eyes that make driving at night a little challenging, so if we are out with the kids at night, I have her drive just for safety sake.

Overall my wife is, how do I put this without being critical, a very safe driver. She tends to do the speed limit or even lower, which doesn't work these days. You need to drive with the flow of traffic. She also defers to other drivers too many times instead of just taking the initiative and making a move. Every time she comes home from work she has some story about this person honked at her or flipped her off because she was driving so slow. I feel bad for her but I know a lot of it is because one time she was driving with our kids when they were little. She was approaching an intersection and had the green light, but out of the corner of her eye, she caught this van that was about to blow through the red light going the other way. She slammed on her brakes, ended up getting rear ended by another car, but probably saved their lives because that van just sped through that light. Even though this was probably 10 years ago, she reminds me of it every time I say anything about her driving. So it is hard to complain....

 
I am so the sole vote for usually her, me once in a while. The way it works is this - I drive my car, she drives hers. She vastly prefers taking her big SUV over my small hybrid, as hers is roomier, more comfortable, and much more useful for hauling things. So most of the time we take her car, particularly when our son is with us, and she drives. Occasionally, we'll take my car when going to a place where parking may be tight.

Only time I drive her car is when she's had too much to drink and vice versa for my car.

Edit to add: My wife is a very aggressive driver and usually gets us where we're going faster than I would.

 
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bierfiend said:
fantasycurse42 said:
When I'm on the road though, I see women driving and men in the passenger seat all the time - I often wonder, why?
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i do more driving during the week for my commute. it's attempt to let me "relax." it really doesn't matter to me, but sometimes it is nice to not have to deal with the idiot drivers out there.
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Catch 22; if more men drove, there would be far less idiot drivers to deal with.I hate to be sexist but damn women in general are terrible drivers..

 
Glad to see there are still real men here in the FFA. One of my pet peeves is how you always see women driving in commercials while the husband is in the passenger seat.

Wussification of America.

 
zed2283 said:
Glad to see there are still real men here in the FFA. One of my pet peeves is how you always see women driving in commercials while the husband is in the passenger seat.

Wussification of America.
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See, I think a lot of us view that as a man relaxing while his woman chauffeurs him. Driving sucks.

 
zed2283 said:
Glad to see there are still real men here in the FFA. One of my pet peeves is how you always see women driving in commercials while the husband is in the passenger seat.

Wussification of America.
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:lol: the bar is set low for being a man in the zed household.

 
You have to consider where you live too, I guess. Almost everything we need is within walking distance and with the buses and subways, there's no need for my wife to drive. I can go a week or two at a time without taking the car out of the garage. Most of the driving during the week is when I'm off work and drive my wife in if she wants to get in really early or some times to pick her up if she has a late gym class. Most of my work is in the city so it's easier to take public transportation.

 
I like being driven around but will drive as well. I drive more throughout the week for work. My wife is a good driver and good parker (we live in the city so being able to park is important) so I don't really notice.

I never really gave any thought to it. The poll results are about as one sided as you will see though.

 
Recently we went on a wine tour, something she suggested (and was quite fun). We hired a guide to drive us around to the various wineries. I was frigging reveling in watching things out the window, because I never get to do that. except the other night when I pointed out some cute Christmas lights to the left for a split second and she made some unintelligible sound purporting to be a warning that I was about to hit a tumbleweed.

 
jamny said:
PlasmaDogPlasma said:
zed2283 said:
Glad to see there are still real men here in the FFA. One of my pet peeves is how you always see women driving in commercials while the husband is in the passenger seat.

Wussification of America.
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See, I think a lot of us view that as a man relaxing while his woman chauffeurs him. Driving sucks.
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I love driving. I would be bored in the passenger seat.
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Yep...and not sure why but last several years I have been getting a lot of motion sickness being a passanger

 
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