Annoying things our GF/BF/Spouse do when they drive our rigs and how to cope with it

Hey look at the bright side! She cant put her feet on the dash if shes driving!

 

Ha!

 

shes shorter than me so when she drives it she moves the seat way up and doesnt move it back after so when i get it in i look like im trying to get in a beetle with 10 other people already in it and im not even tall im 5'8"

 

Rental fees

 

I'm completely comfortable letting my girlfriend drive my truck. She drives an '06 4Runner herself. Drives like a granny. Except at work...where she drives a firetruck (pump and ladder). Needless to say, she's a very competent driver.

 

My wife is a "not so good" driver. She doesn't drive my truck because she has no idea how to drive a manual (planning on teaching her - weekends get too busy to spend a few hours in a parking lot).

Her problem is that "everyone on the road is an asshole and sucks at driving". It's like the old saying, "When everyone is an asshole, its time to go look in the mirror". She always leaves two minutes two late which requires excessive accelerations and hard braking. She gets road rage, which personally I don't understand. I won't let someone's driving style affect me; but if someone is going the speed limit, she tends to tailgate without being aware of it (I have hit the parent/passenger "invisible emergency brake" more times than I care to count). She pulls up too close to cars when stopping at a red light (I was rear ended when I was a teenager and pushed into the car in front of me - solved that habit real quick). And finally, when she is angry, she drives like Jeff Gordon.

But her worst driving habit? Her music choices suck. When she is in my truck, we listen to my music (good), when we are in her car, we listen to her shitty top-40 songs and over-poppy country tunes (bad).

I love her dearly though and just because she drives like a crappy Masshole, her other qualities were more than enough for me to stick around.

 

She understands what my truck means to me. She also knows I can find a different one to sit on the passenger seat!

 

Absolutly just drops the clutch info first gear, breaking lose both tires like we are at the drags.

First and last time I've let her drive.

 

Oh, and Buttons and Switches! EVERYTIME we're stopped in traffic or something...
My '99 was a TRD 5spd. I must've told her 1,000 times what 'clutch start cancel' and 'Rear Diff Lock' meant (always accompanied by "don't push it")

The new one's just an SR5 auto, but I've still had to tell her probably 20 times what 'RSCA OFF' means, and what 'the little button with the car and the squiggly lines' does.