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Hopefully not riding in the middle seat
nope! I'm the driver. pitiful that I'm the only one who knows how to drive a stick so I ended up driving total of probably around 9 hours of driving.
Hopefully not riding in the middle seat
Migraines Suck!!
nope! I'm the driver. pitiful that I'm the only one who knows how to drive a stick so I ended up driving total of probably around 9 hours of driving.
I tried to learn how to drive a stick shift. Guess what? My ex boyfriend will never let me use his car ever again! I almost destroyed his car.
...."jerky much" ??...I tried to teach a friend of mine (she was left handed)...she was prone to using her left foot and hand, even on the brake pedal...It was a deathly disaster!....Lucky to be alive....
Once you get the "feel" of it, it's easy...but tedious when stuck in traffic...and having to hold both pedals down. (clutch and brake)...as I had injured my left ankle once.
Why did it stay that way? They are easy to learn. I will admit it was back in the 1960's but I wanted to know enough to get us back to town if I was with someone that got sick or injured. My dad sold cars and they finally had a trade in with a stick (not many that were buying Olds, Buick or Caddy were trading in something with a stick) and we went out one afternoon. Then a couple years later I bought a car with a stick in the middle of December in Southern Illinois with no problems.
The really fun thing about it was the car I bought had been owned by one of the owners of a local trucking company which did their own repair work. Well . . . they put a spring on the clutch that was really for one of the larger trucks. That ment that when I wanted to play a joke on a guy all it took was to not tell about it and they always killed it when the clutch would jump out on them at first!
Always thought it was somewhat "odd" that many people cannot drive a stick shift....I learned it at age 15 or so...And for many years, preferred a stick over an automatic.....almost all my cars were a stick...but now drive an automatic...
why?
seems like only people in NJ and NYC do not know how to drive sticks but it appears that bunch of surrounding states drive sticks... except older people or family people.
MY why was a matter of why did it stay that way the whole trip? It is not that hard to learn. Teach some of the others and share the driving!