Attempts at Car Knitting

Hello,
In the last 48 hours or so, I have been sitting in a car for about 15 of them with my family on a drive up to Canada for a wedding. This was not fun. I have a neck ache and more, and my cramped legs are still recovering. Ouch!
Thinking that this would be a perfect time to knit, and with the idea (cough, fantasy) of finishing my second sock in mind, I brought along the sock and my cowl.
I was bored out of my mind the entire time, and please remember that my view out of the window was pretty much this the entire time:

Blurry Photo #1: Trees, Trees, Trees, Trees, Trees.....

 Although for brief moments somewhere in upstate New York it was this:

Blurry Photo #2

 Considering all of these factors, you'd think that my fingers would have been itching to knit the entire time. However, I found car knitting to not only be uncomfortable, but kind of annoying. Now I wrote that word real small because I'm embarrassed of this confession. I only managed to get about a half an inch done on my sock and a bit more on my cowl. Here's the picture I managed to get of the cowl:

Blurry Photo #3: Featuring my lap and cramped knees

Anyway, I found car knitting to be difficult mainly because my normal way to knit is in the laziest position possible-lying down on my bed watching movies. I'm not used to knitting sitting up and so under the best of circumstances it tends to feel slightly awkward, but in a cramped car-forget it. 

So there you go. I am indeed ashamed.