I still get pissed when someone stops right on my ass on a hill. I want to yell out the window, "can't you see I'm driving a five speed?!!" even though at this point I don't have to roll back at all. When I was learning some guy got right behind me and my sister pulled on the emergency break, got out of the car and told him he better back the hell up up.
Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.
'Touched'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Laga - Jan 02, 2007 9:24:49 pm PST #2690 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Kristen - Jan 02, 2007 9:40:21 pm PST #2691 of 10001
I learned how to drive on a stick. Dad wouldn't let us learn any other way.
Yeah, I learned how to drive in rush hour traffic on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Had they made us learn on a stick, I think it would've taken more than two tries to pass my road test.
ETA: So I can't drive a stick. But, you can bet your ass, I could drive a taxi.
Cass - Jan 02, 2007 9:44:30 pm PST #2692 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
So I can't drive a stick. But you can bet your ass I could drive a taxi.So, under Special Skillz on your resume?
I learned on a stick too. But there weren't really a lot of other cars to hit where I learned. Fire hydrants, yes. I think I got bonus points (and my license suspended before I actually had a license) for that one.
Kristen - Jan 02, 2007 9:54:48 pm PST #2693 of 10001
Maybe "taxi driver" should be my backup plan. In a non Travis Bickle way.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:08:50 pm PST #2694 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Kristen, I can also show you how to drive stick.
I learned when my BATT taught me which was miserable. It was an explanation + 1 30 minute session of driving. I never drove stick again but I used to dream about how to do it. Then one day, due to street cleaning, I had to move a car that was stick and voila! I could do it after years of dreaming it.
Then I went to Ohio, picked up the miata, which is a standard transmission, and drove it back.
I love driving standards. More control. I don't mind the traffic or the rest of it. It's just that driving stick puts you closer to the machine. And I drove a standard transmission all through my time in the Bay Area (Divis. with a stick is feat of confidence) and I wouldn't have changed it there.
Even on the hill outside of your place, it's not a problem. In fact, the hillier it is, the better to have a standard transmission because it will last longer.
Tamara - Jan 02, 2007 10:18:56 pm PST #2695 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
I only have occasional moments of rollback fear. Usually on Bell as you head up the hill.
This gives me a panic attack. Seriously.
But, you can bet your ass, I could drive a taxi.
HEE!
In fact, the hillier it is, the better to have a standard transmission because it will last longer.
This is true. The same can't be said for your sanity.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:30:24 pm PST #2696 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, yeah. Sanity, not so much. I love manual transmissions is all I'm saying. So much more fun to drive. More power curve. Just... fun.
Laga - Jan 02, 2007 10:33:19 pm PST #2697 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
And there's the whole phallic thing.
Cass - Jan 02, 2007 10:36:48 pm PST #2698 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And there's the whole phallic thing.Well it's fun to drive stick no matter how you feel about ... driving stick.
It's just control and power and having that immediate sense of the car and the road. I don't love manual in traffic but I love it otherwise.
Tamara - Jan 02, 2007 10:43:05 pm PST #2699 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Give me an open flat curvy road in my 1971 Karmann Ghia (my first love, er, I mean car)and I am right there with you all. In LA, I'll take my boring Mitsubishi Lancer automatic.