That is exactly what I was today. I am an excellent driver. I have never gotten a ticket and even have my Class A commercial drivers license. I am very attentive and safe. However some days it is harder then others with my kids back seat driving and alas I have posted about this before.

So today I was looking for a particular place. I had to drop off some paper work to get A.J. into school. I am new here and really haven't been out much. When I lived here before I lived on the other side of town. I was driving around and couldn't find the place so I start entering info into my phone GPS while sitting at a red light. I finished entering the info and was waiting for it to load with my head down looking at it. Out of the corner of my eye I see the car on my left start to drive forward, I look up and see green. I got to the middle of the intersection before I realize the green was not for me and what was green was the left turn only arrow light. Here I am driving through the intersection with a completely red light for my lane. I was utterly mortified. I had all three kids in the car. Someone just give me a heart attack and a reality check.

I am not talking about the teenager who just gets his/her license. That post will be in about two and a half years so keep a look out. No, I am talking about those little knee high, booster seat sitting, rug rat, back seat drivers. It is bad enough running errands about town, but a seven hour trip with them makes me want to drop them off at the nearest exit.

Now kids are not stupid, they understand a lot of things but driving is not one of them. They just don't get why mom can't reach the toy from her drivers seat that they dropped which rolled to the back of the van. No clue why mom can't pull into a McDonalds on the left side of the road from the far right lane. And why isn't there a gas station at the exact moment they need to pee?

Rugrats: Mom look, look, look, mom, mom, mom......

Me: I can't look I am driving.

Rugrats: Mom, mom, mom, mom, looooookk!!!!!!

And there it is, the nagging, the screaming, the yelling about who took who's toy. Then they expect mom to just put the car on cruise control so she can come back and smack one of the kids and give the toy back to the other.

So, seven hours of this while my radio keeps getting louder and louder. Because just maybe if they think I can't hear them they will leave me alone long enough to actually drive in a safe and unstressed manner.

I also encountered my first sand storm. It was during the worst driving part of the day too. That time between dusk and the total darkness of night. I would've pulled off to the side road if I had been able to see the side of the road. It was so thick and pretty scary. Luckily it was only for a couple of miles. With all the wind I can't even tell you how many tumbleweeds were blowing across the highway and how many I ran over lol.

Can I hope the trip back will be better?? Yeah right!!!