Today, I drove to the airport for the first time.
It was horrible.
I wasn't alone- I had my mother with me, and I had Lee- but it was still a stressful driving experience.
Lee and I have been together for two weeks, but I really can't imagine life without him now. He's always so calm, so collected, he never, ever yells at me, and he's always there to steer me back onto the right path whenever I freak out.
But today, we had another argument.
I suppose it was inevitable- it happens in every relationship, but I thought...I thought we were solid, you know? But no...Lee tried to tell me to take Citylink despite the fact that I didn't want to take a tollroad. I suppose it was faster, but I wanted to take the freeway- it being FREE and all- but Lee wouldn't have a bar of it and kept whining on about it for six kilometres.
I told him to shut up but I couldn't really take my eyes off the road while I was driving.
My mum was of no help whatsoever as her sense of direction is worse than mine- which is really saying a LOT- and at the third intersection from home, we'd already had a massive argument and so she stayed snarky and silent at me for the whole trip.
I took umbrage at that fact that she cried, "Stop stop STOP!" when I moved the car forward in the 'hover' lane to turn right, despite the fact that it was pretty damn OBVIOUS that I wasn't going to jump out into oncoming traffic and was bringing to the car to a stop.
Furthermore, she leant forward and blocked my view completely so I cried out, equally panicked, for her to sit back.
I pointed out that (a) I was not an idiot; and (b) she didn't have to shriek like I was some kind of moron.
She said, "I didn't yell 'stop stop stop!' I said to you, 'There's a car coming.'"
Uh huh.
It's like the difference between going, "Hmm, that Jensen Ackles is rather a fine specimen of male," and going, "DAMN IT HE'S HOT!"
Luckily, my Rihanna CD is rather good at breaking awkward silences, and Lee chimed in every so often. Mum didn't trust Lee at all.
However, I realised after detouring through the city, that something was wrong. Lee still kept insisting we take Citylink, until at the traffic lights, I checked his setttings and found out THAT HIS DEFAULT SETTING MEANT THAT HE WASN'T AVOIDING TOLL ROADS.
"Aww, Lee honey, no wonder you got confused."
"Recalculating," Lee said, and off we went again.
Not a peep from him about taking the tollroad. He got me to the airport (although it took extra due to the fact that I didn't realise he wasn't avoiding tolls until we were like 45 min into our trip) but my Dad's flight was 40 minutes late.
After a long time circling and waiting for my Dad to call, I finally went, "I'M PAYING FOR PARKING. BLAAAARGGHHH AAAAAARGGGHHHH AAARGGGGGHHHH."
(Well, words to that extent.)
And you know what? When you hook up my Nokia 6300 to Lee, both support voice-activated dialling.
So I said, "Dad."
"Dad," Lee repeated, and it DIALLED.
COOL.
I introduced Dad to Lee. Dad didn't really say much, but I get the feeling that he didn't disapprove. He even got him to navigate for the last ten minutes, just to put him through his paces.
So Lee and I cleared things up. We've had a couple of minor disagreements and few hurdles, but I'm sure that if we spend a little more time together, things will be smoother.
Cheers to all non-tangible male electronic voices everywhere.
