'Harm's Way'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
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.
I taught 3 boyfriends how to drive stick. I learned how on a '79 Volvo - that thing was a fucking tank. Steel body, cast-iron engine.
I miss driving stick - it's part of the reason I love riding my motorcycle so much.
. It can be a pain in stop and go traffic though.
which is largely the reason why I never learned, I live in a city. Even driving on the highway is stop and go around here.
I would still like to learn to drive a stick. I'm sort of amazed I never did, since at least three of my friends had old Beetles when we were in high school.
Really? I've never seen a manual rental car.
Manual transmission rentals are the norm in the UK, that's for sure. Rocking a stick shift and clutch on the left is wild!