I confess: I whistle in the car. What’s worse, I do it while driving. On long trips, with that boring highway stretching out in front of me, I whistle. How could I NOT?
Here’s the worst part. When I pull up to a light I stop playing. When it’s safest to do it, I quit doing it. Go figure!! I don’t what to be seen doing it. Crazy, right?
I don’t whistle while at the wheel with the car in motion. I do whistle as a passenger, or stopped at lights. But I use my laughing whistle, and I figure if I get hit it’ll collapse a bit before it gets slammed into my brain, right? 
(However, I also tend to stop if I think someone at the light can see me!)
Shameful confession: I don’t own a car! But if I did, I would whistle in it all the time, simply because I get tires of my P*ssed off neighbors who have the whistle and love to call the cops!
I tend to close my eyes when I play whistle so it,s a bit risky in my case…throat singing is a lot safer and just as much fun. 
Mike
Only at stop lights, or when I’m sitting in the car waiting for somebody in a parking lot, or when the car is moving on a deserted stretch of road.
I went scuba diving yesturday at a remote spot on the American River. I had to drive down an old washboard fire road. The washboards added a pleasant vibrato effect to slow airs.
I whistle in the car as a passenger, and at stops as a driver, and while waiting in various parking lots. But I won’t whistle until the car BEHIND me stops. I don’t care if people see me. . .or hear me for that matter (the only nasty comment I EVER got was while I was tootling in the parking lot of the Sligo train station, waiting for Tyghre to take his pictures, and it was from some jerk who couldn’t have heard me in the first place).
Usually I get massive smiles from people in the other cars. At least those that don’t have woofers in their trunk big enough to make neighboring cars rattle.
On 2002-10-21 19:13, mike.r wrote:
I tend to close my eyes when I play whistle so it,s a bit risky in my case…throat singing is a lot safer and just as much fun. >
LOL! A bit risky? he he he… True.
I tend to play at stops as well or waiting in the car for my wife or kids.
On 2002-10-21 19:13, mike.r wrote:
I tend to close my eyes when I play whistle so it,s a bit risky in my case…throat singing is a lot safer and just as much fun. >
Given all the things I’ve seen on the highway (women applying makeup, yuppies reading the WSJ, mothers turning to yell at rugrats in back, kids talking on cell phones while adjusting the radio, all while driving) I now prefer to close my eyes WHEN DRIVING. A whistle would be superfluous.
Well, I do whistle while driving but since I just heard from a customer @ work about someone who got all messed up from an air bag, I have decided to not whistle while driving unless it’s a really long stretch of road and no one is tailgating me on I-95 traffic!
I have whistled the entire way to my mom’s house which is about 6 miles from here. I also whistle at every stop light and in traffic jams. The only thing that worries me is someone rear-ending me and causing my air-bag to go off, shooting my dear Feadóg through the back of my head into the lap of my seven year old sitting behind me.
But it doesn’t worry me enough to quit.
K
I whistle while waiting in the parking lot & I often get strange looks. But, I’ve found that I get some of my best practice time in while in the car away from the phone, the TV, and any other distractions. So, let 'em look!
Nope-I drive commercially for a living and gotta keep the safety record clean. Besides, the acoustics are harsh and interruptions too frequent. -Just like some other things, (cooking, for instance) its often better at home or outdoors at an exotic location. 
Brian O.
[ This Message was edited by: brianormond on 2002-10-21 21:18 ]
I have whistled in my car but, only when sitting in the parking lot at work on my break. I’m an air traffic controller and playing is actually a great stress relief.
I whistle at red lights.
I’m a bad person. I whistle in the car all the time. While moving, stop lights, in traffic,…all the time. And I’ve even been know to play my flute in the car while driving as well. Needless to say, I get lots of smiles, and other gestures. I haven’t got in an accident yet so that’s something I can hang on to. But I’m a very bad person.
On 2002-10-22 00:32, MurphyStout wrote:
I’m a bad person. I whistle in the car all the time. While moving, stop lights, in traffic,…all the time. And I’ve even been know to play my flute in the car while driving as well. Needless to say, I get lots of smiles, and other gestures. >
I’ve always thought that about you.
This all gave me an idea. I think I’ll get out my portable keyboard and put it up on the dash of my van and play as I go down the road. Or maybe a trombone, especially if I pull up alongside someone who has their little dog on their lap as they drive. Actually, it bugs me to see anyone driving who isn’t paying absolute attention. It’s too risky.
Only in parking lots while waiting for my daughter to get done with one activity or another (and then only when it’s too cold to be comfortable sitting outside or on the back tailgate instead).
Redwolf
Completely baffled. A few weeks ago there was a thread started by me old mate Martin Milner about mobiles (cellphones) being used in cars and mostly everyone piled in and said “dangerous, should be banned, I’d never do it” etc etc, but it seems that playing the whistle is okay! (Okay, playing at red lights or when parked is not the same).
Whistling in the car is a lot of fun, but if you really want to enjoy it do what I did: get a tabor flute so you can play with one hand and keep the other on the wheel!