Is AUTHOR wrong in the post ? POST : Before we begin, I should mention that I’m in the process of getting my license, and have just gotten my permit, so I have to drive with an adult in the passenger. I have less than 10 hours of driving experience and probably 4 hours of on the road driving. Also sorry for weird formatting I’m on mobile.


It’s dark outside, and I’m turning to park, my dad says the turn is perfect, but my mom hissed super loud and I panicked and almost hit a car on the right side. I get mad and yell at her for scaring me as she has done countless times, from...


-the first time I entered a freeway accelerating too fast
-yelling at me for cutting off a pedestrian... that was 10 feet behind my car
-me making a perfectly safe lane change on the freeway like I was taught
-literally every time I park
-also every time I reverse out of a parking spot even when there’s no one
-when there’s anyone within 20 feet of the car
-when I make lane changes that I’m confident in and she says stop and makes me second guess myself


I’m generally very confident when it comes to driving but I have to be focused, and she does nothing to help me focus. In fact my driving gets drastically worse when she’s riding along because I’m just so anxious I’ll do something right but fuck it up because of her “advice”.


I finally snapped and yelled at her “Can you stop?! I need to focus and I wasn’t even close to hitting the car until you hissed!” 

She got extremely mad at me for yelling at her, saying I disrespected her. I argued that I wasn’t even feeling pressure until she scared me into feeling it so my anger was justified. I’ve now apologized to her but I really don’t think I was in the wrong here. Interested to hear your responses.



