Back Seat Drivers

Okay, I've gotta relate a pet peave of mine...back seat drivers or even passenger seat drivers.

I sit on my side of the vehicle when I'm a passenger and never let a word pass my lips in reference to the driver's driving capability. I always let them handle the red lights and merging into oncoming traffic and their braking abilities when approaching a vehicle in front of them and all the bells and whistles associated with driving.

So, why can't I be treated with the same respect when I'm driving when somebody is riding shotgun on the passenger side?

I won't name names, but let's just say that our automatic seat adjuster stopped working the other day and his legs are too long to be driving my mini van. So, on Easter, we took a family trip down to my Mom & Dad's.

Needless to say, I bit my tongue the whole trip down and the whole trip back while I was sitting in the driver's seat. I didn't once say, in a catty response, "Yes, I see that the stoplight is changing to red or yes, I see the car in front of me braking or yes, I see that approaching vehicle while merging onto Highway E." I actually physically bit my tongue every time I felt a catty response surfacing.

For what is it in the grand scheme of things? Why fight over something that was soon forgotten about when we got home?

But, I just wanted to forewarn anybody that rides with me in the future, I won't say a word about back seat driving, but I may end up with a bloody tongue in the process, though!

I hope that everybody that reads this has an abundantly God filled day today!