What not to do as a front seat passenger in a car.
When you are a passenger in a car sometimes the driver asks you to help out a little, and rightfully so. After all, you are being chauffeured around.
This is how it often goes in our car…..
Mo, who is the driver, is just approaching a T-Junction and wants to turn right. As you may be aware, in the UK the driver is on the right, so their left side view is often not good with a passenger blocking their view.
Mo: “What’s it like your way?”
Babs: “Oh, it’s very pretty”
Mo bursts into uncontrollable laughter. Not good when trying to turn right at a T-Junction, and still not knowing what it was like my way!
I was actually joking there, and my aim was to make Mo laugh, but this next one was for real!
Again Mo was wanting to turn right. A nice, polite driver had stopped to let her out.
Mo: “Give him a wave”
Babs, assuming Mo knew the person, waved frantically as they pulled out in front of him and drove off up the road!!!
I can just imagine that for the next half hour he was probably saying to himself “Who was that woman?”…..” Maybe I should have waved back”…..”I must know her from somewhere”….. “She’ll probably think I’m rude”…….
Maybe she was just an idiot! Mo and I were in fits of laughter again!
WELL!! Why do they say ‘wave’? Why don’t they just say put your hand up if that’s what they mean?
Stumble it!
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Eric "Speedcat Hollydale"
| 17 May 2009 at 20:10
Ha haa!!! I want to go for a Sunday drive with you two
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beetle
| 17 May 2009 at 20:54
Speedy: We would never stop laughing!!!
Jaffer
| 17 May 2009 at 21:36
Can I join ?
I must warn you I might bark back at dogs.
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Eric and Flynn
| 17 May 2009 at 22:02
Haha! You both must spend most of your lives laughing!
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beetle
| 17 May 2009 at 22:21
Jaffer: You would be more than welcome! We don’t mind you barking in the back seat
Eric & Flynn: You know, we actually do spend an awful lot of our time laughing. We both have a silly sense of humour
Lauren
| 18 May 2009 at 2:35
I’d just wave one finger. LOL
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Ivanhoe
| 18 May 2009 at 14:45
How fun! I still cannot imagine driving (& sitting) on the other side
)
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Lisa
| 18 May 2009 at 19:11
Oh my this was funny! It’s hard to be the passenger for me. I very much tell the driver what he/she is doing wrong.
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beetle
| 19 May 2009 at 2:17
Lauren: Ha ha!
Ivanhoe: I think it would be strange at first, but you’d soon get into the swing of it.
Lisa: Well, the secret to our fun trips is that I don’t drive
Black Cat
| 19 May 2009 at 2:17
Oh Babs, this is so funny! My sides are splitting! And I love the drawing! Can I come and be barking mad in the back of your car?
xxx
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beetle
| 19 May 2009 at 2:26
Black cat: Oh you would be more than welcome, any time. Between the laughter and the singing there is never a dull moment
Vampy Vic
| 19 May 2009 at 9:02
hahah i don’t know how close they were to you to see. But in my head I have a picture of someone waving like those special buses that go by do.
)
Innocent and sweet and yeah with a giggle
V-V
Maureen
| 19 May 2009 at 15:59
Oh Babs, that was hilarious!!! I can just see you waving frantically! And I must use that first line on daughter one day when she is the driver (makes a note as Maureen’s memory sucks). Thanks for the laugh!
Paul @ Palabuzz
| 19 May 2009 at 18:17
that is so funny!
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Jay
| 19 May 2009 at 18:19
Hahaha! OH does that to me – ‘just give him a wave will you? Did you wave? You did give him a wave, didn’t you?’ Honestly, half the drivers in the East Midlands must think I’m a long lost friend by now! LOL!
Swubird
| 19 May 2009 at 23:55
babs:
Too funny.
Rent a car with the steering wheel on the left side. Then see what happens.
Happy trails.
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meleah rebeccah
| 20 May 2009 at 0:47
You are way more fun in the car that anyone else I know! How funny!
beetle
| 20 May 2009 at 0:47
Maureen: I must admit the wave made us chuckle for a long time
Paul: I was very funny at the time too!
Jay: Hahaha! I bet everyone in the East Midlands and Yorkshire are driving around saying “I must notice who waves at me in future”
Swubird: Oh my! Do you want us to never stop laughing? I think the other drivers on the road may not think it funny though
beetle
| 20 May 2009 at 17:23
Meleah: We do try to laugh as much as possible through life. No matter where we are
Comedy Plus
| 20 May 2009 at 23:16
I want to ride around with the two of you. Sounds like great fun. At least you’re both having fun.
Have a terrific day.
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Joanna Jenkins
| 21 May 2009 at 4:38
Living in Los Angeles and only having driven in your fair country once (and once was enough on the wrong side of the road for me!) I can only say– The whole wave part would have ben totally lost on me
Very funny post! More please.
Liudmila
| 21 May 2009 at 9:22
Now if I say that I wanted to partecipate too you have yto buy a bus to take all those who wants to go out with your car. Well, I’ll not say it. I only will imagnie what feels my husband when I do him similar jokes.(but he do not understand -and it’s great reason to laugh too!)
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beetle
| 21 May 2009 at 13:33
Vampy Vic: Nearly missed you there. They were probably about 20 ft away – just far enough to not see a person too well, behind a car window.
Sandee: I’ve suddenly remembered an old Donovan song ‘Take you riding in my car, car’
Joanna: The streets in America look VERY, VERY scary to me. Such huge cars too
Liudmila: We had a minibus once that held 17 passengers. We had lots of laughs in that! We used to sing most of the journey!
Ailurophile
| 22 May 2009 at 15:34
Ha ha! So very funny. I am tempted to do something like this now..
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Liudmila
| 22 May 2009 at 19:37
Mmmm… if we want to sing… I can’t renounce and will join you surely. I book the place in the first rough.
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babs - beetle
| 22 May 2009 at 23:44
Ailurophile: It brightens up an otherwise dull journey
Liudmila: Yes, singing on long journeys is compulsory
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JD at I Do Things
| 26 May 2009 at 20:56
You two should have your own sit-com!
beetle
| 27 May 2009 at 2:03
JD: You know I’ve often thought that would be fun!
Jay
| 14 July 2009 at 9:24
Babs, you need your own late night show. Too funny.