Sometimes it is difficult for us to admit when we aren t the greatest at driving. For many of us, we often think that our driving is pretty decent. After all, we did well enough to pass that driving test all of those years ago, right? Wrong. Even if you managed to squeak by in your road test, the true test of your driving acumen comes about when you have to drive with someone else as your passenger in your vehicle. I found this out the hard way when I had to make a road trip to visit my grandmother a couple of hours away from where I live.
Normally, when I have to drive somewhere, I usually travel alone and am the one doing the driving. However, on one trip that I made to visit my grandmother, my aunt happened to be the one behind the wheel. Under any other circumstances, my aunt is an extremely responsible person. But after only spending fifteen or so minutes with her in her car...with her driving, I realized that there were some things that I did not know about my aunt. For starters, she was not the greatest driver in the world. Ok, her driving was horrible; and the two hours and forty five minutes that it usually takes to get to my grandmother s house from where we live was perhaps the longest two hours and forty five minutes of my life. Why? My aunt apparently has a severe tailgating problem. As we were careening down the highway at almost eighty miles per hour, we were also following another car that was in front of us so closely that I could have stepped from the hood of her car to the trunk of the car in front.
After approximately thirty minutes of this kind of driving, I was actually forced to shut my eyes so that I wouldn t be nearly as afraid for my life. Think about it. At approximately eighty miles per hour, if someone was traveling that fast on a highway while tailgating the person in front of them,w hat do you think would happen if the person in front suddenly stopped short? Would you survive? Even if you slammed on your brakes and managed to switch lanes at the last minute, you would be lucky not to do serious damage to your vehicle or other vehicles around you. Similarly, there are times when you slam on your brakes and the first thing that your car or vehicle does is skid. What kind of control would you have then? What if the road you were traveling on was located on a mountainside or had the possibility of some sort of drop off point if you weren t careful?
The point of all of this was that her driving was dangerous...incredibly dangerous. When this is the case and you are driving with someone (especially someone you know), and their driving makes you nervous; are you within your rights to say something to them about their driving habits and how it is making you feel? Would this make the driver even more distracted? If you truly feel uncomfortable with someone s driving, you need to be careful with how you word your concern so that you don t offend the person you are traveling with.
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