Driving Tips - Backseat Driver

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Always grab the dashboard or doorhandle and yell "Whoa!"

Always tell the driver to slow down or speed up.

Constantly remind the driver of road conditions.

Whenever possible, adjust all the dashboard controls, including the radio, heat, and fan.

Remember: If there is a mirror on the passenger side door, it's there for the passenger. Feel free to adjust it at will.

When at a traffic light, inform the driver the millisecond the light turns green.

Remember your religion; always yell something like "Jesus", "God", "Allah", etc.
The more upset you become, the more words you should add to the All Mighty's name. For example: (and with NO offense meant to Jesus, so please, NO flaming email!)
A car simply pulling out in front of you, calls for a "Jesus!"
A car pulling out in front of you and hitting the brakes, calls for a "Jesus Christ!" and
A car pulling out in front of you, hitting the brakes, and then making a sudden sharp turn in front of someone else, calls for a "Jesus Christ, All Mighty, what the @#$#% is this a*%hole's problem??!!!"

When giving directions, tell the driver to turn after you pass the intersection.

Point to the left and tell the driver to make a right.

Point to the right and tell the driver to make a left.

When giving the driver directions, always mean to say one thing and tell the driver another. Then when the driver gets confused and passes a turn, yell.

Every time you see a car do something that ticks you off, ask everyone in the car with you if "doggiesnot@aol.com" included it on the "How to drive like a Moron" webpage.

When riding with other passengers, quickly jump in the front passenger seat and yell "Shotgun!" Then, tell everyone you'll sit in the back during the return trip. But, have no intention of doing so.

No matter what lane the driver is in and where you are going, always tell the driver that we would be better off in the next lane.

When in the middle lane in heavy traffic, tell the driver that you really need to be in the right lane. Then when you finally cut another car off to be in the right lane, tell the driver you made a mistake and that this lane is going to end.

When traveling straight, tell the driver to get into the left lane. A lane that suddenly becomes a "left-lane-must-turn-left".

Every time you see a car pulling out, yell to the driver "Watch it!"

Make sure that you put your chewed bubble gum into the ashtray, unwrapped.
When being picked up as a passenger, bring a messy powdered sugar donut and a large uncovered cup of coffee. Then, piss and moan whenever the driver hits a bump in the road.

All passengers should pretend to have their own brake pedal.

Grab the steering wheel if you feel the driver can not deal with a traffic situation.
When directing the driver to make a left turn, tell him to make a "You-turn". When directing the driver to make right turn, tell him to make a "Me-turn".

As a passenger, feel free to take your shoes off and smell up the whole car.

Whenever the driver parks, get out and inspect whether or not the car is properly parked within the lines.
 
What I usually do in my bro's car, is when he makes an odd shift or turn, I go "Tssssssss" or "ohhhhhhhh"...then when he says that I can't drive good I bring up the time he backed up with the parking brake on...that works well lol
 
I had a friend who drove Denver to Greeley with the parking brake on. Check a map, and you'd laugh too.
 
yea, my uncle(not to funny one) drove a at the time new 626 home with the parking brake on, and my dad followed him, and when my uncle stopped, he said "You know, it seemed to be pulling back, not wanting to get going, and it handled funny." My dad looked in the 626 and said, "you remember the parking brake?" and he said, "doh, I guess I missed it"

He's smart, just has poor common sense...
 
ohh, sorry, not familiar to Greeley CO...Greeley KS is like right at the time zone line...
 
yea...I would never live right near the time zone line, you'd be so messed up with going to stores and all that...
 
Or really annoying. EX: " hey lets go to Best Buy!" "When do they close?" "6"(they are to the east of the line, so it's central time)"OK, cool we got an hour" *they drive there* "What? how our they closed?" "It's that ******* time zone change!!!"

Yea that's stupid I know, but it's almost 2 am...
 
OMG... I always feel like doing all of that stuff when I'm in a car (except with my dad... IMHO, he's an awesome driver...)
 
Best interfering 'passenger' stunt I ever pulled was when a mate and I went down to Phillip Island race track to watch the V8 Supercars (it was the year Lowndes and Bowe had their big crash - Lowndes went in about 40 metres from me).

We drove down in my mate's old historic rally-spec lime green 504, and got there really early to get a good spot - we checked out one place at the top of the circuit and thought we'd try our luck at Siberia.

So we're costing along over the grass, probably doing about 40kmh, no-one around. He steers gently left after we go over the top of a small mound.

So of course I quietly pop the handbrake on.

It went around one and a half times before Dave worked out what was going on - it was so slow you could have just about gotten out. There were some good natured punches to the arm exchanged after we stopped. My mate had to concede that I had gotten him a beauty (and extracted fitting revenge with a distributor cap carefully designed to fall off my car about a week later).

One of the crowd marshalls saw the whole thing and realised what had happened - nearly pissed himself laughing. It was very funny.
 
:lol:

Me and some mates terrorised a woman who was driving us once. She had one of those steering lock arms, and the mate in the front seat used it as a lever to discretely knock the car out of gear at junctions. Thing was, half the time, she'd see it happen, and punch him for doing it, but then forget to put the car back in gear!

I got hold of her travel rug and held it out the window as we were going along, and she was petrified that I was going to let go.

The gearstick thing was funny though - why she didn't just sit at the junction holding the stick, I don't know. Thankfully the journey was short - I was laughing so much I could hardly breathe.
 
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