| My boyfriend is a nervous passenger. However, | | | | because as well intentioned as they might be, it |
| he is not the only one. There are millions of | | | | can still cause you to get into an accident if you're |
| people all over the United States who can't seem | | | | not careful. |
| to ride comfortably in a vehicle without worrying | | | | While I, myself, am not a nervous passenger |
| about what other drivers are doing or that they | | | | ordinarily, I have certainly had my share of |
| will get into an accident. But if you are the | | | | moments riding with people whose driving skills |
| passenger in someone else's vehicle and their | | | | are absolutely atrocious. Unfortunately, I have |
| driving is making you nervous, how do you react? | | | | discovered that most of these people emanate |
| Do you say something or just leave it alone and | | | | from my own family! Why, I have an upcoming |
| shut your eyes? How do you know when and if | | | | trip that I will be making with my aunt by car in |
| you are crossing the line into hurting that person's | | | | order to attend a family function. Since my aunt |
| feelings? | | | | lives near me, it only made sense that we would |
| While there is no cure to being a nervous | | | | carpool. However, I insisted that we take my car |
| passenger, you can probably do yourself and the | | | | and that I drive. It is sad to say that my aunt's |
| driver of the vehicle a favor by keeping your | | | | driving makes me so incredibly nervous that I |
| comments to a minimum. There is a fine line, it | | | | sometimes have felt like I was having a panic |
| seems, between being a nervous passenger | | | | attack while riding with her. From following people |
| versus being a back seat driver. The two are | | | | so closely that I am almost sure we are touching |
| almost interchangeable at times. For example, I | | | | the back bumper of their car to speeding and |
| will sometimes have my boyfriend with me and | | | | surging in traffic, the nightmare continues to live |
| we will go out to run errands. With him sitting in | | | | on in my memories, making me shudder. |
| the front passenger seat of my car, I will be | | | | If you are a nervous passenger or if you simply |
| sitting at an intersection or a road waiting until it is | | | | don't want to hurt someone's feelings because |
| safe to make a turn. However, when I try to | | | | you feel as if you would not be able to control |
| bend my head forward to the right to check for | | | | your commentary while riding with them, then |
| oncoming traffic, I will find that his body is blocking | | | | one option is to offer to drive your car as a sort |
| mine as he is also bending forward to check for | | | | of means to an end. I'm sure that the other |
| traffic. "You're good on this side." he will tell me. | | | | person won't mind it unless of course, you are a |
| However, you should never take someone's word | | | | bad driver as well! |
| for it- even if it is someone you trust and love | | | | |