No smoking, wear your seat belt, and if you’re a decent driver there’s a good chance I’ll make you drive, because I hate to.
Gosh, who would have suspected that Dopers are a bunch of control freaks with personal space issues?
Mostly I ride by myself, so rules don’t often come up… But when the family is in my truck, we’re pulling at least one and frequently two recreational trailers behind us.
The Rule: Do Not Block My Mirror!
I swear my wife will spend half the trip bent forward, rooting around in her purse (on the floor) and I can’t see what’s behind/beside our rig. She’s completely oblivious that I’m trying to change lanes with 70 feet of RV. Drives me freakin’ bonkers.:rolleyes:
Um, no littering? Nothing illegal? I can’t come up with anything, I don’t give a shit if you wear your seatbelt, that’s a personal choice. I always end up telling smokers it’s okay as long as they roll down the window.
The car’s in good shape and it doesn’t descend into anarchy when I give someone a lift so I suppose we’re doing okay with few rules.
When I’m ready to go, I’m going, with or without you (after proper notice, of course).
It hardly comes up at all anymore, but when applicable, I am not getting involved in your childish “shotgun” argument. If it comes down to me to decide who’s sitting up front, no one is.
If a game of back seat tackle football ends in a tie, each team gets the ball once at the 50 yard line. If it’s still a tie after each team gets one possession it’s recorded as a tie in the glove compartment log book unless it’s a playoff game.
My kid is almost four. Seatbelts in the back are mandatory in the Netherlands.
I used to have the rule that my toddler couldn’t put his feet up the back of the front seat, but then I found this and even that was no longer a problem.
My three year old son has car rules, however. His mom is not allowed to sing in the house or, for that matter, anywhere else. I am only allowed to sing in the car.
I told him: “I do what I want, you do what I want, and when you are a grown-up, you can do what you want, too.”.
My car is a drivers car, not really meant for comfort or passengers, it is meant for the pleasure of the driver. It will hold one other person plus two additional people in the back seat, provided that their legs have been removed. But it is a little cramped even for the one passenger up front, my wife likes it only on sunny days when the top comes off, otherwise I usually drive it alone.
Rules: No smoking. The car is 10 years old and the cigarette lighter is still pristine and has never even been heated up.
No food, at all, is to be eaten inside the car.
Drink at your own risk. The passenger side has a pull out cup holder and my wife was trying to press the lid onto her mocha latte Starbucks grande whatever and pushed too hard, and broke the cup holder. There was much angst until the replacement part arrived and the car was ‘whole’ again. On another “Thelma & Louise” road trip with her girlfriend a small amount of mixed drink was spilled, followed by major attempts to clean it up. The next day I still noticed and asked, “who was drinking in my car?”
Now if my wife needs or wants to drive a vehicle other than her truck, she prefers to steal a police car, even an occupied one, rather than drive my car.
Oh, and no Country Music shall be played in the car. Cause that shit is just wrong.
No cell phone use because I can’t stand cell phones. When it’s my car, my insurance, and my gas, it’s my way or the highway.
Agreed. No cell phone use by anyone in my car while it’s in motion.
Driver has unilateral control of the air conditioning/heat. My truck doesn’t have individual climate controls for driver and passenger so if you don’t like where I have it
set then you can climb out and ride in the bed.
Eat and drink at will but clean up your garbage.
I generally don’t care that much what people want to play on my radio but I do reserve the right to reduce the volume if I feel it’s needlessly loud.
My friend God of Citroens was trying to preserve his new car, so he instituted a No Eating in the Car rule.
…His wife and kids rapidly changed it to “No Eating in the Car While Dad is in the Car”. :rolleyes:
Are you sure you’re on the right message board? 
When I’m driving my car, I like to have the passengers choose the music. They’re often hesitant to do this, though…maybe because so many other cars have a “driver chooses the music” rule?
Really, my only rule is no feet on the dashboard. It’s my random pet peeve; squicks me right out for some reason.
:rolleyes: Good lord.
The passenger has to wake me up if I start drifting out of my lane.
Rule 1. Absolutely no country music will be played on the radio.
Rule 2. If I happen to have one of my Kesha CDs in the car, then we will absolutely be listening to Kesha the whole ride.
Don’t touch my stereo. You’re gonna get smacked. If you don’t like the music, we can find an agreeable compromise. If a compromise cannot be reached, I will turn it off. But we’re not listening to AM talk radio, rap, or country music between these 4 doors! Not while I have a pulse.
The doors automatically lock when I put the car in gear. If your arm is on the lock when it locks, you might feel a pinch. Blame the car when it happens, not me. Your memory issues aren’t my fault.
You can’t forbid me from smoking in my car just because you don’t like it. If you have a health problem that warrants it (or if we have a baby in the car), I will abstain. Otherwise, my car, my rules, my smoke. If you have a problem with this, we’ll take your car instead. I never smoke in other people’s cars unless they light up while driving, and I will still ask first. I *will *smoke less if I have a non-smoking passenger, and *much *less if the passenger is vocally anti-tobacco. But I’m not going to stop smoking altogether. It’s my fucking car, quitcherbitchin.
Don’t sing in my car. Exceptions are only made for drunk people or really, really good singers. If you think you’re a good singer, you’re not.
If you’re over 18, you don’t have to wear your seatbelt. But if I get a ticket because you’re not, you get to pay for it. If I know you can’t pay for it, wear your seatbelt. If you’re a kid, wear your seatbelt.
Aside from obvious stuff about no smoking and using seatbelts…
Driver picks the music.
People with long legs get first dibs on the front passenger seat.
If you ever have a problem with my parking, I’d be glad to hop out and let you do it. Otherwise, sit back, relax, and keep your mouth shut.
Do you have a reason to post in this thread other than the threadshitting?
I forgot to post this earlier, but I had a friend who honest-to-goodness had a start-up and shut-down checklist for his car. He required that his wife adhere to it. Everything had to be done and in the specified order. The only part I remember is that the radio had to be turned off before the key turned off.
Yes, he was wound a bit tightly. I would never have asked to borrow his car - that way lay madness…