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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:28 PM
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Where do you put your hands
when you're driving?

Are you a 10 and 2 person? I'm a 7:30 and 11:30 person myself.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:30 PM
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1. 3 and 9
I hold on to the little cross bar.
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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:31 PM
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4. so do I
but on a bicycle you do not have a choice.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:38 PM
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13. snicker
:)
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:30 PM
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2. 10 and 2
sorry, lack of imagination on my part, I'm sure.

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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:31 PM
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3. Sometimes 10 and 2...sometimes 9 and 3...
sometimes one hand at 12, or one hand at 6. Whatever's comfy.
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:32 PM
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5. That way you can hold your beer?
:shrug:
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:33 PM
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7. Water bottle filled with vodka.
:evilgrin:

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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:38 PM
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15. Hard core!
:beer:
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:32 PM
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6. um-I have to think here
I think 9:15-9:30 and 2:30-2:45 gal, m'self
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:35 PM
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8. I'm a 7 and 5 person, usually just a 7.
7:30 and 11:30? :wtf: You cross your right arm over to the left of the steering wheel?
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:46 PM
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18. My arms aren't crossed
One hand is where the crossbar hits the rim of the steering wheel and the other is at the top (slightly to the left.)
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:35 PM
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9. hm.. right about 3 and 6ish.. sometimes 7
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:35 PM
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10. Man I'm a one-handed, no handed,
one hand at midnight, one hand at six, one knee at six, whatever kind of driver!
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:39 PM
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17. CRAZY FREAKING DRIVER
:scared:
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Worst Username Ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:37 PM
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11. You are not supposed to do 10 and 2 anymore.
Edited on Tue Apr-12-05 05:38 PM by Worst Username Ever
With the prevelence of airbags, they are teaching 9 and 3 so your hands don't shoot up and break your face.

That said, I am more of a one arm on the stick shift, one hand loosly on the 12:00 postion. }(
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:38 PM
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12. Left hand at 11, right hand on the stick.
That goes for automatics too. I can't drive using two hands because I'm so used to driving a manual. The exception is making u-turns. Kinda weird, huh? :shrug:
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:38 PM
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14. all over my boyfriend whenever i get the, oh...i'm sorry...
while i'm driving? = 10 & 2

:hi:

but what does 7:30/11:30 look like while making a turn :shrug:
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:49 PM
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20. I let go with my left hand and my right hand is in control
I grab on with my left hand as necessary.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:39 PM
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16. 6:30. Bad habit, I know.
I remember years ago when I was having my behind-the-wheel instruction, my instructor drove to a parking lot for my first lesson, and he had his hands at 6:30.

"Don't get into this habit," he said. "Do as I say, not as I do."
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Buns_of_Fire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:49 PM
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19. 10, 2, and 4.
I'm a Pepper. (You're a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? :-) )

Normally, right hand at 6. Sometimes, at 5:55, sometimes at 6:01. Life's too short not to live it up a little.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:50 PM
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21. 7:30 and 11:30?
Which hand's on which? Are you a contortionist or something? ;-)

I go between 9 & 3 and 5 & 7 myself.

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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:53 PM
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25. What's wrong with all you people?
Do you all have little doll arms or something?
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fluffernutter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:52 PM
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22. i'm a one-ish and a lap driver.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:52 PM
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23. I used to be a 10 and 2, or a 9 and 3 person.
Recently, however, with the advent of some painfully nasty bony spurs in my right shoulder, I now keep both hands at 6:30. Sometimes the right one at 6:30 and the left at 8 or 9...Depends on how much my shoulder is hurting!
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swimmernsecretsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:52 PM
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24. My ex would drive with one hand, his left
at the midnight position, sometimes alternating with his right so he could do the farmer's tanning salon with his left elbow hanging out the window. One time I thought I'd seen him steer with his knees.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:54 PM
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26. Left hand at 9:30 (Nardi wheel), right on the shift/radio
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 05:55 PM
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27. 3 and 9, baby!
Sometimes it's only "9", though, with my right hand poised above the horn.

:)
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 06:06 PM
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30. Or when my right hand is required to wave
or flip someone the bird, or blow them a kiss.

Or all three!
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 06:00 PM
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28. Somewhere between
10-2 and 9-3, and sometimes just right hand at 2 and left hand on my knee.
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hickman1937 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 06:03 PM
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29. Left hand at 12, and right hand on the radio buttons.
Today I spent about 3 hours in traffic.:banghead:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-12-05 06:14 PM
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31. Depends who's sitting next to me
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