After borrowing his partner’s car to run errands in town, a Washington man was caught breaking the law while behind the wheel. In a post on r/mildlyinfuriating, the partner claimed their boyfriend drove their Lincoln Town Car at 98 mph—nearly 20 mph over the posted speed limit for rural highways, according to WMST. While many commenters were alarmed by the alleged speeding during what some described as a “joyride,” others were more troubled by the partner’s decision to monitor their boyfriend’s driving.
Reddit user DavidRichter0 claims they take “extreme care” of their cars and had explicitly warned their boyfriend not to drive recklessly. “Instead, he decided to endanger other people’s lives, my car’s health, his own life, and to take it up to 98mph, god knows where,” they wrote.
They went on to emphasize that driving at such a speed showed “a complete disregard for other people’s safety and their wishes,” particularly given that the vehicle was a Lincoln, not a sports car. “There shouldn’t have been any temptation to ever get up that fast that I could excuse,” they concluded. Thousands of people agreed that, at such an excessive speed, the situation could have become dangerous in an instant.
“Lincoln Town Cars are genuinely unsettling at anything approaching freeway speeds. It’s basically a sofa on wheels,” one person said, highlighting just how much risk the man appeared to be taking. Another commenter asked, “Are we going to talk about the 13 instances of him being on the phone while driving?” A third added, “If he doesn’t have a car of his own, this is probably why.”
Thousands of Users Were Also Outraged That the Boyfriend Was Being Tracked
In addition to condemning the illegal speeding, many Redditors criticized DavidRichter0 for using an app that notified them of their boyfriend’s traffic violation. “I couldn’t continue a relationship that had enough of this kind of distrust to require either partner agreeing to be spied on,” one user wrote. Another added, “What in the dystopian [expletive] is this app? People are insane.”
Trust issues aside, OP and their boyfriend will likely need to have a serious conversation about lending out their car in the future. As one commenter put it, “98 mph is not a joyride,” and even OP acknowledged the incident as “irresponsible driving.”
