Maybe "taxi driver" should be my backup plan. In a non Travis Bickle way.
I've been out of the abbey two days, I've beaten a lawman senseless, I've fallen in with criminals. I watched the captain shoot the man I swore to protect. And I'm not even sure if I think he was wrong.
Book ,'Serenity'
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.
Kristen - Jan 02, 2007 9:54:48 pm PST #2693 of 10001
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.
Kat - Jan 02, 2007 10:44:57 pm PST #2700 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
It's weird because I don't find the manual any more irritating even in LA traffic. And I've spent my fair share of time on the 405.
The problem is not driving stick in traffic. For me, the problem is just the traffic and the gross stupidity of others. That bothers me when I drive automatic too.
Laga - Jan 02, 2007 10:48:27 pm PST #2701 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
yeah no matter how sore my calf gets I would find automatic too boring. Plus I like being able to downshift in an emergancy.
Cass - Jan 02, 2007 10:50:20 pm PST #2702 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.
I don't find sticks in traffic annoying so much as I can kind of zone some of the annoyance away when I am in consistently slow traffic in an automatic. Which, okay, written out makes me look kinda crazy.