Need help making decision - opinions please
My muscular dystrophy is advancing to the point of where we need to make a decision on our lifestyle. We currently full time in a DRV Mobile Suite 36'. I pull it with a 2008 F-450. My question is t...
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I speak from experience.
20 years ago my DH (then fiancé) tried to teach me to drive his restored '71 Ford F350 dually hauling a car trailer. I can drive a standard just fine, and the width thing didn't bother me... but my DH just kept yapping at me the entire time instead of letting me be and offering small amounts of advice.
With his constant "helpful advice/criticism" I was really nervous making a sharp Right hand turn from a secondary road onto a State Route (had to swing wide into the opposite lane). Looking left was a sweeping curve where cars could come from at 55+ mph and get to the intersection really quickly.
There was a ton of evenly spaced traffic from BOTH directions. I waited and waited and waited.... until the poor guy BEHIND me (in a compact car) pulled around and zipped out in a small break in traffic (where I couldn't fit). DH was getting irritated and saying, "just pull out and do it! Look I could have pulled out 6 times and backed up by now!" But another car was beeping at me and I was nearly in tears. THEN he said, "Just ignore the beeping ---- they know you don't have a clue!" He said later he meant to be helpful and supportive (meaning I should just ignore everyone else and go when I was comfortable) but it sure didn't sound that way
Well, I put the truck in neutral, set the e-brake and got OUT of the truck and stalked away. The worst part was that it was in front of our local Fire Dept (and my dad was a past chief) and it was a work detail. So there was an entire audience that witnessed my little nervous breakdown/tantrum. They found it highly amusing...
A year later I drove the trailer home with one of his friends riding with me to help "supervise" me. My DH was following in another truck and towing another equipment trailer. I did just fine. It was just my DH that caused me problems :)
20 years ago my DH (then fiancé) tried to teach me to drive his restored '71 Ford F350 dually hauling a car trailer. I can drive a standard just fine, and the width thing didn't bother me... but my DH just kept yapping at me the entire time instead of letting me be and offering small amounts of advice.
With his constant "helpful advice/criticism" I was really nervous making a sharp Right hand turn from a secondary road onto a State Route (had to swing wide into the opposite lane). Looking left was a sweeping curve where cars could come from at 55+ mph and get to the intersection really quickly.
There was a ton of evenly spaced traffic from BOTH directions. I waited and waited and waited.... until the poor guy BEHIND me (in a compact car) pulled around and zipped out in a small break in traffic (where I couldn't fit). DH was getting irritated and saying, "just pull out and do it! Look I could have pulled out 6 times and backed up by now!" But another car was beeping at me and I was nearly in tears. THEN he said, "Just ignore the beeping ---- they know you don't have a clue!" He said later he meant to be helpful and supportive (meaning I should just ignore everyone else and go when I was comfortable) but it sure didn't sound that way
Well, I put the truck in neutral, set the e-brake and got OUT of the truck and stalked away. The worst part was that it was in front of our local Fire Dept (and my dad was a past chief) and it was a work detail. So there was an entire audience that witnessed my little nervous breakdown/tantrum. They found it highly amusing...
A year later I drove the trailer home with one of his friends riding with me to help "supervise" me. My DH was following in another truck and towing another equipment trailer. I did just fine. It was just my DH that caused me problems :)
