Short distances like going to the store nothing. Longer distances when my husband is driving we usually put on instrumental music or opera. Sometimes jazz.
I prefer silence most of the time. When the weather is nice I enjoy having the windows open in the car so any radio noise would be muted anyway. But in general, silence is golden home or car. Right now I'm playing on here and watching the Hurricanes game with no sound. This is when I'm alone.
This post was edited by Thriftymaid at November 28, 2017 6:26 AM MST
I don't often listen to anything on short journeys. Longer ones, either music or talk depending on my choice of programmes, but more often the music. I avoid pop stations like day-time Radio Two though.
It's not the music I object to - I will like some and dislike others, as would anyone else - but driving is stressful enough without the inane, juvenile blather between the tracks. At least the BBC, including Radio Two, does not carry advertisements that make the commercial channels even more juvenile blather, which is a blessing!
I have tried CDs but found them something of a nuisance to use in a car; and while car is quite new but I don't think its radio would accept any sort of external music-file device, as far as I know and don't possess anyway!
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Many years ago - nearly 40 I think - you could have a cassette-player or a radio. Not yet both in one unit. And then as an optional- or subsequent- extra in the cheaper cars. A friend of mine finally able to afford a new car, scraped together enough for a bottom-of-range Vauxhall, and asked for a cassette player.
"Sorry Ma'am", she told me the salesman said, "A radio is the only option listed for this model."
My friend stood her ground, knowing that was absurd. When the salesman realised he was about to lose the sale, amazingly, a cassette-player would fit that car, and more easily than a radio!
Randy D 