Anyone else hate being a passenger when someone else is driving?
I know just how this man feels. I am so used to being the driver that I have now become a white knuckle passenger.
It must be something to do with loss of control. My son who has been driving for a year was taking me to town and constantly making me push the imaginary brake pedal and looking behind to see if he was cutting anyone up. It's mostly all in my mind I know as he is a good driver. But not being behind the wheel myself is making me believe that I'm the only one to be trusted. I have had to bit my lip.
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Used to be, which was sort of ironic since I was late in getting a driver's license (age 21). But as traffic has worsened and I have gotten far more conscious of my declining abilities (although I am still fully active, and driving with both legal and medical approval), I have become far more comfortable with it.
It must be something to do with loss of control.
Most definitely. I am reminded of a small plane outing we took from Christchurch to the Milford Sound in NZ. The other passengers were an airline pilot and his wife, a former stewardess. He was white-knuckle all the way. I said "you should be used to flying" and he said "when I am in control". The fact that his planes would drop like a rock if something went wrong, and what we were on could glide to safety had no effect on him.
