Do you enjoy the experience of driving?

Question

I don't really enjoy driving, but my mother and daughter love to! (Must have skipped a generation!). Do you enjoy the experience, or, like me, do it only because it's the only way to get where you want to go? What is about driving that you enjoy or dislike?

I do like sometimes when you kind of feel "graceful" and smooth when you go around a curve, I will admit! I think that's what a lot of motorcyclists like, too!

Answer 1

...I DID enjoy driving. But that was when I was young and beholdened only to myself. I enjoyed the freedom it represented. I enjoyed being a "good" driver and doing everything I could to save gasoline and maximize miles per gallon. I enjoyed using a stick shift smoothly and properly, downshifting instead of breaking, and maximizing traction on curves by applying advanced driving techniques. I enjoyed taking care of my car, washing it and waxing it, decorating it and vacuuming it. I even enjoyed learning how to do the tune up (dual points and condensors!) and rebuilding the carburator as needed.



However, that was when I drove when I chose to, drove to destinations I chose, and drove at a time that I chose. Today, however, 95% of my driving is done at my childrens' beck and call, taking them to places of their choosing and the times that they set with the people they select, or it is done to take my husband somewhere. I no longer get to drive on a vacation trip through beautiful scenery. I no longer get to drive without saying "I don't care WHO started it!", "We aren't going anywhere until your seatbelts are fastened!" and "Leave the radio ALONE!"



In addition, it doesn't matter whether I clean the truck (my husband's choice, although he can no longer drive) or not. Within a day someone has spilled chocolate milk on the upholstery, written their name or something worse on the door, dumped out a back-pack's worth of old school papers on the floor, and made smudges on every window. Not to mention the fact that someone will have a sporting event where the parking lot is a mudhole.



And finally, even with the most basic 2003 model of fleet truck, so many things on it are run by a computer that I can't even put in a new radio without taking the darn thing to the dealer so the computer can be told about it and so will accept it without error messages.



Maybe someday, when I am driving a clean and shiny car model that I chose, going to places I select, at times I schedule, with pleasant conversation or golden silence in the vehicle, I will enjoy driving again. But not right now.

Answer 2

and driving in the city can be very nervewracking! There was so much public transportation available, I only drove when I had to, and never enjoyed it.



When I got married and moved to New Jersey, I HAD to drive or never go anywhere. It was mostly driving on highways, and at first I was very nervous, but the more I did it the easier it got, and after awhile it just became natural, like anything you do over and over.



I don’t mind driving now, but I’d still rather sit in the passenger seat and daydream. Unless I’m the one in the driver’s seat, I never pay attention to how we got where we are going! It amazes my husband that we can go to the same place 100 times and I still won’t know how to get there unless I drive! Sometimes he’ll bark at me, "PAY ATTENTION’, so I’ll remember, but usually within 10 seconds I’m mentally somewhere else, and haven’t a clue!!



For 2 years I attended a church 45 minutes away. I only knew one way to get there and one way to get home. One night when I left, I ran into a DETOUR!!! I thought I’d faint! It was dark and I didn’t know the neighborhood at all, or how to get to the highway. I actually PRAYED for help, and for God to get me to the highway, and IT WORKED!! It was actually a good thing, cause from then on I knew another way.



Any time I have to "merge" into fast moving traffic will take 10 years off my life - more prayers are necessary!



To this day I am still reduced to feeling like a 10 year old whenever I see a Detour sign, but that experience taught me that the world will not come to an end, and I always have my cell phone if I get lost!



Parallel parking is still a horror story!

Answer 3

I enjoy getting into it and driving just for the fact that I'm alone and can think...or sing along to the radio...or talk to other drivers and wonder why they do the things they do!



While I'm at work, I have to listen to people all the time - I have 2 bosses and one is very loud (and can I say obnoxious?) - and after 8 hours of it, I just want to be alone. I just want to get in my car and drive. It's relaxing to me for the most part and I don't even mind the traffic so much. My music helps me to not think about how many other people are trying to get to the same place I am going. I think about what happened at work so that I don't bring it home with me, because the time that I am home relaxing is the best part of my day!



Not to mention the fact that you feel a sense of control behind the wheel. I love to drive at night on a highway when not many cars are out on the road. No speeding of course. :)

Answer 4

but living in Cailfornia....alot of these drivers are INSANE! I mean I feel like I take my life in my hands each days I go to drive. I am terrfied by the freeways because people are so hostile & rude....and most days I drive I get PO'd by some idiot...and its not like the old days where you can "flip them off" or yell at them....if you do that now they'll shoot you.

Just today I was ready to "kill" the person in front of me...because they are "flicking" their ashes out the window....this drives me NUTZ! I smoked for 26 years and I NEVER WOULD DO THAT! We have suffered from some of the worst wild fires ever.......and this idiot just flicks his ashes out the window---not a crae in the world! I drove as a profession for many years and I really liked it, I guess too many people and too many bad drivers have just wore me down.

Answer 5

It is an art form in itself so yes it is enjoyable, but then there is the negative side of the berserk and/or drunk drivers that make it a pain.

Answer 6

i actually find it pretty enjoyable



now that you mention it, i'm pretty sure it's because it keeps my mind occupied with driving; you know, having to stay alert the whole time.



i'm neither thinking about my life and other sh*t and just completely focused on the driving experience

Answer 7

i love driving, i like to drive all day in the middle of nowhere just flying past fields and forests.

Answer 8

I abhor it. Not to mention the fact that I'm mostly terrified of it, though I do it on a regular basis.



Admittedly, I'm also a horrible driver; I'm spatially retarded.

Answer 9

i enjoy more riding with an expert driver . i am not a driver by the way .

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

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Answer 12

I am TERRIFIED to drive ! =/