Giving Lifts - the car variety!

I much prefer driving, rather than being a passenger. Luckily, when being driven, it’s by my DDs or BF - all good, confident drivers.
My S-in-L’s driving (Cheshire) scares me witless! She shouldn’t be allowed out on the roads.

I prefer to drive or be passenger with my OH, we both hold advance driver qualifications…………just do not like being in a moving vehicle with sub-standard drivers. Not saying everyone is, but it’s my choice after all.

I prefer to drive - I usually don't like other people's driving although they probably don't like mine!

I'm happy either way. If I'm a passenger I just switch off and am not troubled by other peoples driving. May not be the most sensible approach but it works!

Depends who it is. I’m happy for any of my dc to drive me and some of my friends. A while back, though, I had a terrifying experience with someone I know fairly well but had never driven me before. She wasn’t familiar with the car she currently had and quite honestly I was surprised to get home in one piece.

She didn’t even know how to start the thing and when we did finally get moving it was a series of bunny hops, in an automatic car!! She then proceeded to drive at 45mph on a (thankfully shortish) stretch of motorway before careering round a roundabout to our destination. Never again!! 👀

I like lifts!

But only if driven by a responsible driver.

I'm ok with lifts if it's with a competent driver. Unfortunately one of my friends still thinks she is a brilliant driver......she isn't!!
Although I no longer drive due to an eyesight problem, I still 'drive' when I'm a passenger. I observe the situation on the road, the traffic lights, pedestrians, cyclists etc.
I am frequently aware of serious mistakes made by my friend, but she has no awareness of having made a poor judgement and commitments on the anger, occasionally obvious in fellow drivers. She being the cause of their anger.
The strange thing is that she consistently sits at roundabouts, missing perfectly safe opportunities to enter. It seems she will only go when there's absolutely nothing coming. A l o n g wait sometimes.!!!
I never say anything to her regarding her driving as I think if I did it would make her very nervous.

Comments.... not commitments

kittylester

If you drive, do you prefer to give lifts or be the recipient of lifts?

I am always happy to drive and give lifts to other people but some times I end up being the passenger. Which is ok generally but, last week I was given a lift to the pub by a friend which was quite scary as she seems to be losing the capacity to think peripherally. Luckily we arrived home safely. But, I think I will stick to my car in future.

I prefer to drive. I give lifts if I must.

I'm not a passenger, apart from with my husband.

After one journey. I know whether I will accept a lift from that person again.

I am just glad that with the arrival of SatNavs, I no longer have to rely on other peoples hand drawn maps/directions or verbal directions from the front passenger. Relying on this type of direction in the past led us to being very late for a funeral and a children's party with other children in the car.