Terrifying Drive

I was behind the steering wheel, in the dark, way too early in the morning, with Gary, and it was rainy, and there was road construction, and good god -- it was horrifying.

Here are the events:

1. Gary disagreed with me, Siri, and the Mini GPS on what the route should be. 
2. His suggested route took us on a road closed for construction, where I had to make a u-turn, accompanied by Gary's screaming.
3. I chose a better route, a safer route with no construction, and he insisted that we now blindly obey Siri, who ...  
4. ... took us into construction, which would have been fine in the daylight, but I veered into the actual construction area and had to swerve back on the rainy highway.
5. I actually went the wrong way on a major road, and during the resulting screaming I redirected into the wrong way lane on an entirely different road.
6. Gary demanded he drive instead, great, awesome, thank you, and then after the passenger/driver swap neither of us could get the car started again. 
7. We swapped again and when I was back in the driver's seat we found the car won't start with the door open. He insisted I drive home, since I was in the driver's seat already.

It was awful. Gary kept trying to make jokes about it after, and I was having none of that. So, in the future there will be no drives through construction zones with Gary at night when it is raining. And thus my dotage begins.

Comments

[KC]

See, that sounds like it would have been a horrible experience at any age, so there is that. Of course, when you were in your 20s there wasn't GPS. And also probably no Gary yet. So that would have been an advantage/disadvantage. (I feel like which-road disagreement is significantly more unpleasant the more arguing you need to do?)

[theQueen]

KC - given how it all turned out I don't know why I didn't just shut out the arguing and do what I wanted.I suppose because he had a migraine and we cater to the sick.

[theQueen]

KC - the worst part was when he said, "Just follow the car in front of us. He's getting off the highway. He's going the same place we're going." I don't know why he feels justified making this assumption.

[KC]

"He's going the same place we're going" is... quite an assumption. (unless the car is decorated for an event that you are going to, that is; it is probably more reasonable in that case)

But yes, habit of catering. And also yes, migraines suck.

[theQueen]

KC - They do suck. Sadly, Gary's attempts to see the doctor ran into a BQ Covid surge in which the doctor was out with Covid.