miyuu17

So my mom asked me to be her driver for the afternoon because she wanted to buy some storage boxes. I was supposed to go to the mall anyway to pick up a new spindle of dvd-rs, check if there's any new manga and to have some ID pictures  taken for some forms I need to accomplish, so I agreed. It has been a while since I drove for my mom.

Ten minutes after I drove I remembered why it has taken a while.

My mom is a 'backseat driver', or in this case, a 'passenger seat driver'. I mean, I know when to break, slow down and turn on the signal, but every other minute I'll hear her say: "You're way too fast, slow down" or "I don't feel the break", or "you're tailing that car way too much". *sigh*. Not only is it irritating, it is distracting. I don't want to answer back or we'll have an argument there, which I wasn't in the mood to have.

Music is another thing. In our family, the rule is the driver controls the music in the car. So I have my iPod and Auxiliary cord ready, but my mom refuses to listen to the stuff I want to listen. I got her an ipod two years ago, and that's what we play. No offense to my mom's music preferences, but I'm really not in the mood to listen to old songs when I'm driving, it tends to make me sleepy and distracted.

On the way I home I asked her to drive. I told her I wasn't feeling very well, (it's true, I had a headache since there were so many people doing grocery shopping and it was too noisy) and I wasn't in the mood to have a discussion about my driving skills anymore. ^^''