kisstherain

That's why I don't do carpool even though it's better for the environment. My time in my car is my precious personal time. So while I admire you for doing the good thing to carpool, I will never do it.

Sometimes people are just being nice to talk to the driver to acknowledge you are not a cab driver.  Like other LYKs said, there's no easy way for you to tell her to keep quiet without offending her. It's hard to deal with silence when you aren't close to each other. It seems silence is often taken as "awkward" so in social situations people try to break it.    Maybe you can offer her a drink with sleeping pills in it to knock her off, ha ha.

Good luck! If you find the way to make her talk less, let us know too! I want to learn how to too.