I have a question about a papa who’s a terrible driver.
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He drives an inexpensive foreign car.
He always hugs the left side of the road incredibly closely.
The lane-departure alarm keeps going off, but he still looks completely unfazed.
He also leaves an extremely short following distance.
When he’s about to hit something on the left, he suddenly jerks the steering wheel to the right.
While I’ve been in the car, he’s hit things like poles on the front left several times.
I’m always on edge and absolutely terrified.
I keep wondering whether I’ll make it home alive.
He’s a practicing physician, so he should be a responsible person, but his movements are kind of unsteady and he seems unreliable. He’s gentle and kind by nature, though.
Even when I tell him to drink some coffee or clap my hands and tell him to be careful, he just wears the same expression as usual and doesn’t seem to realize how dangerous his driving is.
It’s so frightening that I’m starting to wonder if I should stop seeing him.
He’s a good person, but…
Do you think he can improve?
He says he’s been driving since he was in college, so he isn’t a beginner.
I’ve heard that the way someone drives is similar to how they treat women. Is that really true?
What would you all do?
Thank you.
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You can’t change him.
Even an alarm that goes off when you cross the line can be switched off. To begin with, he probably doesn’t even consider it an unpleasant sound.
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I’m in Seattle.
Kindly, but insistently, keep telling him to drive farther to the right—he’s terrible at driving.
Training an old guy is part of the art of papa-katsu, too. If he doesn’t improve, cut him loose.
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I’m Maezawa from the president’s office, and I’ll answer as well.
> The alarm for crossing the line keeps going off.
So even foreign cars can have that feature installed.
Maybe he simply considers driving on the lane markings perfectly normal and doesn’t care about the alarm. But if that’s the case, he seems fundamentally dangerous.
It’s true that driving schools teach you to keep left. Ordinary cars generally drive around the middle of the lane, while learner drivers are taught to stay toward the left.
Even so, I believe they’re taught to drive about 30 to 50 centimeters from the lane markings. If they drove over the lines, they’d be scolded and wouldn’t pass the practical test.
So there seems to be something seriously wrong with his way of thinking.
> He hit things like the pole on the front left several times while I was in the car.
He’s an unbelievably bad driver. Hitting things is completely unacceptable.
> Do you think he can improve?
I don’t think so.
> He said he’s been driving since college, so he’s not a beginner.
If he’s hitting things, he seems worse than a beginner. I’d go so far as to want him to surrender his license.
> What would you do?
I’d say that cars are scary and suggest going on dates without one.
Even if you live in a rural area, you should be able to meet in a major city and go on dates without driving.
If that’s not possible, I think it would be better to break things off. Your life is more important.
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I can’t tolerate poor driving, so I probably wouldn’t continue seeing him. I don’t think he can improve. Hopefully, you can stop doing dates by car.
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