Does any one else hate how their husband or partner drives? I hate my kids going in the car with my husband. He is so impatient. It’s so embarrassing. He does the dreaded stares at other drivers as we go past. Every time we get in the car with him, we argue. I limit going anywhere in the car with him. My kids don’t like him taking them anywhere. Sometimes I’ve had to let him pick one of our kids up. He’s not an idiot on the road , he is just impatient. My son just informed me that dad stuck his finger up at a lady the other day.
I am so horrified that he would do this to someone and especially in front of our kids. It’s not like he drives them all the time, it would be no more than once a week and it’s such a short distance, he has no patience. Everyone else is wrong or cut him off. There has been times, I have got out the car and walked with my kids.
Surely I’m not the only mum who has a husband who thinks he’s some perfect driver.
I wouldn’t be able to go to the next suburb without mentioning his driving. I’m such a back off, let them go, no rush. My husband speeds up when he can’t go anywhere and rushes. I don’t see any sense in it. I always give a friendly wave. Now I find out my husband gives an unfriendly wave.
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Some drivers get such anger issues behind the wheel! My usually calm, polite husband starts calling people names.
By far the most dangerous is his tendency to stuff around with his phone, playing music or gps. He almost smashed my brand new car because he didn't brake when the lights ahead changed & almost rear ended someone at 60km/hr. Missed by centimetres. Often he drifts into other lanes or misses lights going green.
I'm certainly not perfect either. I think we all should take a breath when getting in the car and think about getting somewhere safely and without being rude.
My partner is not that bad but I have noticed sometimes he gets competitive like if there's another car at the lights he will have to beat them to be in front. I honestly think aggressive drivers should have harsher penalties as it leads to serious road rage. Hearing about people using their car as weapons makes me sick and that should mean lose your license for life because you're not mature enough and dangerous. Rarely happens though, a few more people will have to die before road rage is taken seriously.
Yes this is so true and my husband isn’t a violent person either and this is what I keep telling him. You never know the rage of someone else and even though my husband isn’t a violent person, he may be on the other end of it one day, when he gets so easily annoyed and acts like this. So frustrating. It seems I’m not alone in these comments.
My husband isn't as bad as yours but I HATE how he will literally slam on the brakes when there's an orange light even if it just turned orange as he's there.
That level of impatience on the road is an accident waiting to happen!
If my husband behaved like this behind the wheel, my kids would not be getting in the car with him again until he'd received some anger management.
I actually witnessed a driver just like your husband flip someone off and shout some obscenities once, the driver on the receiving end pulled over in front of the first guy, got out of his car and lobbed a crow bar directly through his windscreen.
Not saying that was okay (obviously it was a pretty psycho thing to do) but when you're a dick to people you run the risk of pissing off the wrong person.
This is what one of my worries would be. Obviously a car accidents too but having someone just as agro or worse coming at you especially with kids in the car
That’s psychotic. I have a friend who lost his mate on the road and he is clearly traumatised. He gets really mad at people driving stupidly, but now it’s almost to the point of raging at minor things. Like yours, it’s unpleasant even on the shortest trip.
He has a problem, he needs to grow up and acknowledge it and sort it out. You should be able to tell him his behaviour in front of his children is unacceptable. It’s scary. He’s in charge of the vehicle they’re riding in. They are completely out of control and the person behind the wheel is losing his cool. He hates drivers, imagine how his kids feel. I wonder if this is also where he got his hate of being on the road from too.
Oh I tell him alright. I’m not one too sit quiet about anything. He doesn’t speed and doesn’t actually drive like an idiot. He sits on the speed limit at all times. He’s is very impatient but I don’t get why? I often wonder if it’s some kind of anxiety around built up busy areas with lots of traffic lights. There is no reason to be like it.
Driving can be hugely anxiety or stress-inducing for people. Anyway with some reflection he would know why and there’s lots of help available to work on it, he just has to want to.
Recently I was going 82 in an 80 zone. An aggressive male pumping his wanna- be testosterone in smoke circles out of his ears with flared dragon nostrils raced right up my cars arse trying to give it an anal rear - ender while expecting me to speed up for him. I stayed at speed without budging and he then got more angry and yanked his dick pumped Ute sharply to the right overtaking me while screaming like a banshee half hanging out his window what a slut I was for 'going too slow' . This tantie throwing man - pig was speeding and raging because I was following the speed limit in the left lane and while he was at it, he assumed I fuck random people for free as I was apparently a slut hahah . I'm sure he was sexually frustrated or rushing off his head to get to his dealer before the drug batch was sold out. It gave me so much pleasure to laugh in his face as he zoomed on by. It makes them angrier if they're laughed at . It just shows how pathetic these tools really are . It's almost always either anger issues or meth comedowns . I have no time for road rogues like this .
Your partner is this dude. How humiliating that he behaves so foolishly . I'd feel embarrassed too if he were my other half. Take the keys off him or go separately. Men like this are often abusers in other ways too. There's no way that he's not a problem at home. Guarenteed.
Lol but this is the thing he isn’t an angry person or violent and it’s always respectful and is a gentleman who treats me and my kids so well but when it come to driving he so impatient. He wouldn’t yell out at anyone but sticking his finger up and staring is enough. I can’t stand it. I’m also not afraid to speak my thought. He doesn’t speed he sticks right on the limit where, I’m the type to sit slightly under and im often abused by men when I’m driving. I’ve also had a man stick his finger up and me and hurl abuse because I was in the right lane. I waved to him to say im sorry and he went off. I was new the area and had to turn to my right not far off and didn’t want to miss my turn. This man was so angry at me. We don’t go in the car much with my husband. He is great on long drives but anything around our suburbs where it’s busy he’s so impatient.
It is even more satisfying when they get pulled over by the police and you get to drive calming on past them with a big smile on your face
Hahaha... yes... my husband's driving sends me nuts!!!!! But because he's 'Sunday morning driving miss daisy!!!'
I don't want an idiot, but he needs to actually accelerate to get to the speed limit. I'm too disorganised to have travel take longer than necessary!