Back Seat Driver

Vee asked me to take her to the shop and I said yes. Hmm what a drive even though it was only a short journey it felt like a very, very long one.

I have lived in the area for over twenty years and I know it quite well thank you very much.  We got in the car and I started the engine and just as I was about to pull out out she told me to go straight ahead and turn right then she told me I needed to turn right at the lights and watch out for the cars coming across from the opposite direction.  

I told her I know what I am doing just let me drive to which she told me I needed to turn in here, so I turned in at the next street after the one she pointed to, where on getting out of the car she told me you can park here, here being on the yellow 'No Parking' lines outside the shops.  I told her I would turn the car around while she went into the shop to buy her milk etc.

I tuned the car around and she came back from the shop with her shopping and I drove to the corner to turn left.  At the corner she told me you can go now I couldn't see the road clearly due to a van parked on the pavement in my line of vision but she said you can go after this car I beeped my horn as a warning when I believed the road was clear and I pulled out as she said 'the car behind beeped at you because you took too long'.  I told her it didn't at all, it was me beeping as a warning to oncoming traffic that I was there.  'Oh', she said, followed by there's two lanes here you need to be on the inside to turn left'. I held my breath for a second before saying 'Vee,  I have been driving these roads for twenty years will you leave me alone. you're a back seat driver',  I had to laugh when she responded with 'I am a good driver'.

It seems she has heard the phrase back seat driver but did not know what it means ha ha ha.