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I get it the other way mate...that purr "You are not making enough progress - Liebchen"

Wimmin! Damned if you do - and damned if you don't!

OK - try this one... worked with my Mum. (My Ma never likes me to drive too fast - and my wife is a "bad influence" on me Ma loves everything else about Wildy - except the smell of Castrol! Part of what you get when she has to hide uinder the tank after talking about unexploded doughnuts to policemen )

Anyway - I find classical music (that most relaxing Classical CD Ever - lots of Chopin) , a soft cushion and chocolates seem to take mind off things and gets a "nervous" passenger to chill out a little more. This may enable you to concentrate more on the drive and smooth it out a bit more so that she does not notice the "progress"

She's been used to a slow speed and I think her criticism may be compromising your smoothness here. She has to be educated as well as you - and you need to be sympathetic to her needs as well here. Perhaps a more gradual approach as well. Creep up the speed gradually so that she will not feel it. In time - she will get more used to it and then criticise when you don't make progress.

IG's mother is the same... guess it's a British mumsy thing. Wildy fortunately prefers to be driven at the right speed.

Hope this helps you out a bit. You can try. Sure others will have things which worked for them as well when dealing with the "set in ways and bit nervous" type of passenger.

My problem is at the other end of the scale - wife and kids who like going fast - and all those kids are " cheeky rogues!"

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If your wife makes you drive that slowly, then I feel for you, words would be exchanged if my other half tried it. All I would ask is that occasionally you pull over when it is safe to let the huge queue behind you get past, otherwise frustration may set in, and that leads to dangerous and stupid overtakes.

Presumably on the wife's instructions!

Very perceptive, mind you she doesn't understand how computers and websites work and that the original text was retained in Mad Moggie's post.


She also doesn't understand the difference between forums and chatrooms and although I have never been near one of the latter she is worried that I might be lured away from her somehow.

Back to the original post - it seems I completely misunderstood what she said about my driving in spite of there being no further comments after I slowed down. She has also told me that a number of other people have commented to her on my good driving skills but somehow these plaudits have never found their way to myself. Strange?

Wimmin! I have never been able to suss them out at all. Criticise their driving and.....

(Should I post - dare I post one pull I made when I was a very young cop? OK - pulled a middle aged lady years ago. No brake light, no seat belt and on off side front light was out. Routine pull. As soon as I got her in the back of the car - she went off on one. When I commented on the dodgy cornering - she started shouting at me - she had been driving before I was out of nappies or some such garbage And in any case she had not been SPEEEEEEEDING! When I suggested continuing the discussion down at the station - she was going to do me for wrongful arrest. At the station - buckets of tears. I'd harrassed her and brought on her period. I ended up having to explain myself to my then guvnor as she made an official complaint about my "high handed attitude and the way I spoke to her!" Still prosecuted her though )]#

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You too? I always misunderstand my wife. Never sure what I am supposed to notice in response to the " WELL?. I always get it wrong anyway! And if she has a new hairdo and hates it and you say it looks nice (as you don't really know what else to say - and saying it looks "good" seems the right answer....) It never ever is the right answer. I usually bury my head in the paper and quake. Good job she's in the kitchen where she belongs at the moment.!

As for her comments on my driving ... I get

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