Tonight I was working away on a project and suddenly busted out laughing. I remembered that the same tension about driving styles has been something my mother and step-father have been arguing about for the many years. They really do argue, driving down the road arguing about how he drives too fast or she drives too slow. They even joke about the way they argue about their driving. In fact, it's a legendary on-going fight.
Apparently, my H never heard the family joke about my folks and their driving fights. To think that all of this time, if I showed any discomfort over my H's driving, he would get really ticked. Apparently, all of this time, he's been thinking to himself that this was one of the ways that we are "not right for each other".
When he called from work tonight, I told him what I had been thinking about and some of the funny stories about my folks driving down the road arguing. He was pretty amazed by that and thought it was pretty funny.
I guess my folks have been "incompatible" for almost 30 years and enjoying it.
