Thank goodness, since I don't know how to drive stick.

I have to learn! And soon. There's a stick shift car sharing my parking pad now. Never saw the point of it. So much more fiddly than a regular car!

My grandparents owned a dairy store and we got milk delivered from them until it closed in the early 80s. That was the best milk ever.

Almost all the grocery stores around here have milk in glass bottles available.

So much more fiddly than a regular car!

Once you get used to it, it just becomes second nature. It can be a pain in stop and go traffic though. I'm so used to manuals that sometimes automatics get on my nerves, "Hey car, I didn't want to shift gears right now."

Whole Foods also sells milks in glass bottles but I assume the deposit is as expensive as it was in MD, so that becomes a pain.

If they sold it at the farmers' market here like Ronnybrook Farm in NY then I would get it every week.

You'd think there would be more people into this concept in CA.

Once you get used to it, it just becomes second nature.

That's what everyone tells me. But they all learned when they were young people! I am old and unable to easily learn new things.

I am old and unable to easily learn new things.

It might actually be easier since the whole driving thing isn't new. Just learn someplace where there is plenty of space in front of you (behind you in reverse), especially in a car with a lot of power.

I don't remember what the deposit is, but I bring the empties back so it's moot at this point.

I do have a good teacher lined up (boyfriend refuses to teach me himself and that's probably a good thing).

I think I told this story - my parents met back around 1960-ish when my dad was teaching driving and my mom was a student of his. She just could not master the stick shift on my dad's car so he bought his very first car with an automatic transmission so he could teach her to drive.

I found stick shift on cars very easy to learn, as I had much previous experience driving tractors.

Speaking of things you never see any more, just recently I saw a MILKMAN delivering milk. In glass bottles. wow

Aw! We had one when I was a kid!

We also had a Charles Chips guy for a while.

When I was in high school I taught a girl how to drive stick. I learned to drive stick shift, well driving as well, in a Honda Civic Si. It really wasn't the ideal car for learning a stick shift in when you're also learning how to drive.

It was very handy to know when I did highway work and had to drive tractors and 10-ton trucks.