Does your ladyfriend be it wife, girlfriend, significant other what ever you may term it as drive you around? (Does not include you being intoxicated)
I am seeing many new trends in today's young people that just seem odd to me. One that strikes me is when I look at the car next to me and the young lady is driving with a fella in the front passenger seat.
I have rattled my brain and can come up with 2 instances where a girlfriend or my wife drove me.
I broke my wrist playing softball in High School and my girlfriend drove me to the hospital. My wife and I were on a hike and I had an unexpected date with a beehive and got stung about 50 times. I took damn near an entire box of Benadryl and my wife drove us home.
Other than that I always drive or drove my ladyfriends. Thinking more about it I can't really think of my friends that had their lady friends drive.

Another one I notice that chaps me a bit is when there are 2 dudes in the front and girl in the back. Ladies ALWAYS ride shotgun over fellas.
I guess I am just getting old maybe I am the odd one and just never paid attention to it before.

Actually yes. My wife is a control freak. When I drive she is constantly "pressing the imaginary brake" or making surprised sounds. It is just easier to let her drive. And frankly I don't miss it much.

My other half does most of the driving. She gets car sick and on top of that, has some anxiety issues with other people driving. She can handle my driving, but it's less stressful for her to be in the pilot seat. Fortunately, we're both above average drivers, so it's easier for me (someone who typically prefers the pilot seat) to go with this arrangement.

Ya, I let my wife drive when she wants, or if we need to get somewhere quick.

Unless she calls shotgun, girls always ride backseat where I'm from.

My ex-boss was a giant douchenozzle, and he disliked driving (no correlation between doucheyness and not driving). On business trips, he always got someone else to get the rental car (e.g. Me), and then he'd volunteer to pick up people all over town for dinner. He said his wife always drives when they're together.

My current boss is a great guy, but can't put down work. He is always reading or on the phone in the passenger seat. On business trips, he always got someone else to get the rental car (e.g. Me), and you can't count on him to navigate because he is multitasking. He said his wife always drives when they're together, and he reads and talks on phone in passenger seat (even on vacation).

Her vehicle, she drives. Unless it's after dark. She can't see very well in the dark.
My vehicle, I drive, unless I've had a drink.
Long trips, we switch off.

It only seems fair.

Bruce

My dad prefers to let my mom drive, and she enjoys it. It lets him get work done.

About a dozen times in 28 + years.

My wife prefers to drive. And her car gets better gas mileage than my truck.

We trade off driving on long trips. I drive at night, because her night vision isn't the best. I drive when she's been drinking. And I drive when we have to take my truck (hauling cargo/dogs/etc.)

But most of the time, other than those situations, she drives me around in her car. I don't have any problem with that.

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Fortunately, we're both above average drivers....

Aren't we all??

We split is up on road trips, whether it is slogging through miles on a trip to another destination or a just-for-fun trip out thrashing the cars around.

Around town, I'm almost always at the wheel. No real reason. Also, making things easier, we don't really have his and hers cars. We've got three unique vehicles for different purposes, but we use them interchangeably between us two.

My wife drives because she gets motion sickness. If we are on a long trip and she needs a break, she tries to go to sleep so she doesn't get sick.

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Originally posted by Black92LX:

Another one I notice that chaps me a bit is when there are 2 dudes in the front and girl in the back. Ladies ALWAYS ride shotgun over fellas.
I guess I am just getting old maybe I am the odd one and just never paid attention to it before.

One word - headroom. TALL people ride shotgun, short people go in the back. I don't care who they are.

When we were dating, my (now) wife got a car slightly before I did. When we went anywhere in her car, she drove. Usually.

Now, unless I'm deathly ill/migraine/lost a contact lens/whatever, I drive. Because I don't mind driving and to her it's like work. (Yeah thousand mile each way road trips, I still do all the driving. No big deal.) Just like she does most of the cooking, because she doesn't mind it and to me it's like work.

We're grownups and we get to decide what each of us want to do, how we're going to divide the labor. One size does not fit all.

I drive all day for work so around town my wife drives. Trips and motorcycle are when I always drive. That's why she won't get her motorcycle license and her own bike because she likes to ride on the back and be treated like a princess

I drive my car she drives hers for the most part. Since hers uses no gas we generally use it on the weekends.

She does what I say and if I say drive me she drives me.

I hope to God she does what I say and doesn't browse SIGFORUM.

Seriously though depends on the car or the situation. Most times I prefer to drive but not always.

When she displeases me, I make her pull me around town in a rickshaw.

No longer and it was rare even at then. My wife has retina problems. She literally is blind in one eye and can’t see out of the other.

No, never, unless I had surgery, so like 3x in 37 years.

I drive. My husband only drives if I’ve been drinking or I’ve been in the ER/hospital.

He’s ADD and makes me carsick (and I don’t get carsick).

I made the excuse of he drives all day for work, so I’d drive everywhere else and it was accepted.