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Is it rude to demand that passengers in a car not talk when your driving?

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    #62
    L'prof
    Registered Users Posts: 12,031 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    I remember for the 1st couple of weeks of driving thinking that I genuinely had no idea how anyone could concentrate on driving with the radio/music on on the car. Couldn't do without it now though. No talking either? Were they even allowed to talk to each other?


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    #63
    alta stare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭alta stare


    I don't care if the music is blaring, people are chatting, babies are crying ( ok I hate that) or the car is silent I'll drive the way I usually drive, with confidence and focus. The only thing I will not have in my car is smoking...I dint smoke so fudge the ones who do :D


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    #64
    Shint0
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    OP got banned. Anyway, I think the clues were in the OP as to what the real issue is. Devil is in the detail.


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    #65
    indioblack
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭indioblack


    feloganlisp wrote: »
    I'm 21 and started driving when I was 18. People say I am a pretty focused driver. This is because I don't have the radio on, listen to music, or talk to people ever. I was driving with some of my friends once and they said I was a bit rude for not talking to them throughout the whole journey from Dublin to Galway. But to be honest, I would rather be rude than risk being paralyzed in a car accident.

    Off the road though I am a very hyper individual. I have had trouble focusing on many tasks so I would rather prefer when I'm doing something dangerous to put try to focus as best as possible.

    Would you agree with me or do you think a might be rude and controlling?

    It's usually just myself, [the driver!], in my car. Usually with the radio off - I'm content enough with a bit of peace and quiet - the occasional light-hearted banter with other road-users, "You twat!", "What the .... are you doing?!", "Indicate, indicate!!"
    Once every three weeks I drive a friend into work for a week. He literally talks as he's getting into the car - and he's still talking as he gets out. For all I know he carries on talking to himself as I drive off.
    His droning was distracting until I stopped listening, [about two years ago], - I just throw in the odd "yeah" now and then.
    A while back a woman drove out of a side road, smashed into my car and wrote it off - police, ambulance, the works.
    He continued talking as she was about to crash into my flank - even as I uttered the famous last words, "She's not stopping!"
    As we were sent spinning down the road, amidst breaking glass, screeching tyres and me praying that we wouldn't turn over - I realised that he had finally STOPPED TALKING.


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    #66
    zSparc
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    feloganlisp wrote: »
    Would you agree with me or do you think a might be rude and controlling?
    I agree 100% - I don't talk much while driving, I just switch off and focus on the road. All people in the car and their lives are in my hands (and other fellow drivers, cyclists, pedestrians too, for that matter). I call it responsibility.


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