What’s your parents/family's worst driving habits?

"Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras" (jegoingout)
10/06/2018 at 17:33 • Filed to: None

My mom wears through brakes faster than I can keep track. We’ve had her car for 6 years now and I’m confident we’ve replaced pads and rotors every other year now if not more than that. I get on her case for riding her brakes way too much, but she swears on her and her mothers life she doesnt.

For reference, her car probably does 12k miles a year at most with 85% of those miles being mixed city driving.

What’s the worst driving habit in your family, whether yours or someone elses?

DISCUSSION (29)

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 17:46

My mother brakes very late and also doesn’t slow for speed bumps.

Me, I kinda drive like an ass.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 17:48

My father tailgates and my mother will tap her brakes if a car 15 car lengths in front of her taps their's . Also she won’t drive through tunnels.

wafflesnfalafel > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 17:57

O ne thing that my wife does that bugs me is on residential streets with no center line she will drive right up the middle, even around corners where you can’t see. If there is a center line she drives completely fine, pays attention, is what I would consider a better than average driver. I’m sure she’s pissed off some of our neighbors by now... It’s gotta be some sort of spatial interpretation issue in her brain or something. She will do the same with with a shopping cart at the grocery story - right up the middle of the aisle, (so I’m usually like, “honey, I’ll push the cart and you can hold the list.”)

Nauraushaun > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
10/06/2018 at 18:01

She won’t drive through...what?

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:01

My wife doesn’t notice or slow down for obvious things like speed bumps, curbs or other road hazards. S he also tailgates subconsciously.

My mother is pretty decent and nearly accident-free in decades of driving, but she feels a need to parent and berate other drivers for the tiniest mistakes that she is just as guilty of.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:03

Neither my mother or my sister know how to check fluids or clean the vehicle. While not a driving habit, my mother will randomly freak out over the simplest things while someone else is driving. I finally screamed at her that she was going to cause an accident if she didn’t stop, and so far she has.

fintail > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:05

My mom speeds at least as much as I do, which has always amused me. Not huge speeding, but a constant 10 over no matter the road. Her biggest foible might be parking alongside a curb - either brushes it, or is a mile out.

My own issue might be my willingness to use the horn, relative to the pretend-polite lack of horn use in the passive-aggressive PNW. But someone from NYC would probably say I am mellow.

Quadradeuce > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:06

My dad won't use cruise control, and feathers the gas pedal so he speeds up, slows down, speeds up, slows down, etc. It will make you carsick.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Nauraushaun
10/06/2018 at 18:12

Tunnels. He said Tunnels.

Steve in Manhattan > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:13

My late father was sometimes a two-footed driver - yes, in an automatic. His habit did not rub off on me, thankfully.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:14

I found out last year that some of my family reads my posts, so MY FAMILY IS SO WONDERFUL AND SURE DON'T DRIVE LIKE POO

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Quadradeuce
10/06/2018 at 18:15

Kinja'd!!!

I got into a huge argument a few years back during a roadtrip because my then friend would simply not use cruise control and did this. And even when he did eventually he was CONSTANTLY changing the speed.

Yeah we don’t really talk anymore.

sony1492 > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:18

My father short shifts, My mother doesn’t understand the concept of vehicle maintenance(I'm not exaggerating, her last motor blew from lack of oil).

Spanfeller is a twat > Quadradeuce
10/06/2018 at 18:25

My dad thinks cruise control is the devil’s encarnation. He once complimented my smooth driving, i had been using cruise for over an hour.

Urambo Tauro > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:28

My family has a tendency to ignore early warning signs. Like the noise on my father’s PT Cruiser that turned out to be a horribly worn tie-rod end . Or my sister’s Explorer’s grinding brakes . Or my other sister’s mild concern over her Thunderbird’s brakes (fluid leak, there was hardly any pedal feel left).

I ha ve’t caught my mom using her phone while driving, but she does get s o caught up in conversation with her passengers that she’ll miss a turn sometimes .

Spanfeller is a twat > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 18:33

I’m very bad at following directions (GPS, co driver, etc) , that at times makes my driving strange. I also sometimes drive very aggressively.

As for my parents, my mom rides the brakes a lot and my dad is selectively courteous. Neither have a basic understanding of parking laws or customs, roadway priorities, or notion of traffic peaks (they just drive when they need to without much thought to it)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > fintail
10/06/2018 at 18:37

I work with a guy who grey up Cali in the 60s. That sumbitch honks and highbeams everyone -- in a company vehicle to boot. He disabled his horn on his personal vehicle because he said he used it too much and just got pissed off all the time.

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/06/2018 at 18:50

I hit the horn today in Bellevue, someone ground to a halt at an intersection where our lane turned into a new lane in the cross street - no reason to stop. I suspect it was a symptom of being a “new driver” in this land of privatized driver testing. I also will toot the horn if someone doesn’t get moving in 2-3 seconds after a light changes, slows down to a stop during turns, etc. I differentiate between tooting and honking - a toot is just to wake someone up, a honk is translated rage. Washingtonians take it all as rage. I will also high beam left lane campers, especially on 405 where they live and thrive. My co-workers are appalled.

I love honking in the old car, it is much louder than a modern car, and people look. If you are slowing me down in that thing, you are probably just going too slow.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
10/06/2018 at 19:00

Smart doctor

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 19:02

Mom has a habit of forgetting to put up the windows in her car....my brother has a habit of not driving very smoothly...

TheRealBicycleBuck > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 19:20

It sounds like your mom rests her left foot on the brake. My mom started tailgating all the time as she got older. Turns out, she needed new glasses. My cousin can’t maintain a steady pace for anything. The constant change in speed makes me ill.

My wife yells at me for slowing down too fast, so I have to give twice as much braking distance as a normal person when she’s riding with me. Funny thing is that she brakes shorter than I do.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 19:38

My mom never comes to a complete stop before going from reverse to drive. And she wondered how she killed her Accord’s transmission.

She also never uses a parking brake when parked on a hill. As a result of her teaching all five kids how to drive, three of my siblings have the same habits. The other two drive stick.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Nauraushaun
10/06/2018 at 21:06

Tunnels. We only have like 5 in the borders of the immediate area. Midtown, downtown both going to Portsmouth. M&M and HRBT going to Newport News and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel going to the Eastern shore.

Kiltedpadre > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 21:07

My mother in law has trouble turning her head left and is losing peripheral vision. If she needs to move into the left lane she just turns on her signal and hopes there’s room.

No, I’m not kidding. I rode with her once for a total of three miles in a small farm town. I was certain I was going to die.

gmctavish needs more space > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 21:54

My dad leaves too long between oil changes fairly often, and sometimes paces people in the lane beside him in their blind spot, but not too often at least....he also left lane camps from time to time, but he does eventually move over, he’ll just take his time doing it.

All that said, I’m more comfortable with him driving than almost anyone else I know.

My mom doesn’t drive anymore, I can’t remember what her habits were but I think being too timid was the main thing.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/06/2018 at 22:58

my mom is perpetually late because if google says 28 minutes. shes leaving exactly 28 minutes, and then needs to make time up by going 10 over. I don’t have a problem on highways, or empty roads, but it drives me insane. This annoyance is increased, by her “oh look at that house” distractions.

My dad will also put a vehic le in D or R before fully fully coming to a stop.

Also both will leave a vehicle idling for 15 minutes.

m-b-w loves his SUBAROO > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/07/2018 at 04:22

My mom runs over things (2 foot landscaping rock, medians, curbs, etc) she’s also ripped the bumpers off of about 5 cars in the last 3 or so years... needless to say, my cars are off limits to her...

Tristan > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/07/2018 at 05:00

My sister refuses to use cruise control and drives with two feet. To maintain 55 mph: accelerate to 60 mph, brake to 50 mph. Repeat endlessly until passengers vomit.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras
10/08/2018 at 00:34

Brakes. Wife brakes hard and late. I used to nag her about it and stopped since that’s a one way ticket to divorceville, but her newish car with the collision warning sensors will beepbeepbeepBEEPBEEP BEEPBEEPBEEP and slam on the brakes when there’s something approaching too quickly for its comfort. I felt smug at first that there was something besides me telling her that she was braking way too late but I guess she’s just shut it out now. I can even hear the poor car beeping away while talking to her on the phone while she’s driving.

Recently took her car to the shop to get the brakes done and after looking at the brakes they asked me if I’d been taking it to the track. Very funny.