Mal ,'Ariel'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Unless it's a book I'm already familiar with - I have cassettes of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter (thanks, msbelle!) in the car.
It's starting to get creepy how much we are the same person, because I am the same way -- I can't listen to an audiobook while I'm driving unless I've already read it. Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.
Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.
I tend to focus on the road and lose track of what's going on in the book. Which, if you'll forgive my saying, feels like the wiser choice.
Driving is one of those tasks where it takes just enough of my attention that other parts of my brain can get some good thinking done. Like how people get good ideas in the shower. Having a short commute might be messing with my ability to come up with solutions to my every day problems, come to think of it. Interesting.
I'll lose track of what I'm listening to and need to rewind in traffic or going somewhere unfamiliar, but on long stretches of interstate audiobooks are my friends.
-t is pretty much me, I just don't roadtrip much, so those long stretches that don't require much attention are rare, especially with how bad our traffic's gotten.
When I was still in school and had to go to a campus 30ish miles away, I listened to a few books on the drives, but, thankfully haven't had a regular commute of that length in a while. I may never finish Tess of the D'urbervilles.
I like listening to some podcasts while driving, but I haven't tried driving while listening to books.
I have trouble hving conversations when I'm driving, because the driving part of my brain overrides the verbal part and vice versa.
HOW IS IT ONLY TUESDAY?
INORITE!?!?!11?!
The usual timey-wimey bs