My parents follow a standard procedure anytime they’re driving to unknown territory:
-Dad drives
-Mom pulls up directions on her phone
-Mom calls out turns along the way
This inevitably leads to constant, petty bickering throughout the ride.
“You didn’t tell me where to turn!”
“That’s because you’re driving too fast!”
“I don’t know what 'right there' means! Tell me the name of the street!”
“You keep talking and I can’t pay attention to the map!”
And so on and so on.
(And so on.)
For years, they have done this while a large, Bluetooth-enabled, navigation-ready screen is positioned inches away, in their nice Lexus SUV, ready at any time to connect to a phone which would then conveniently display the route on screen.
I once offered to set this up for them. They quickly hand-waved the idea and proceeded as usual.
Married 40 years and still going strong.
Marital foundations are built on bizarre customs that outsiders simply cannot understand. Never interrupt a bickering couple while they’re enacting one of the routines that holds it all together.