'Beneath You'
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.
No, I mean driving a manual transmission car
I guess when you're talking penises, I think the whole ... thing is about penises somehow. I didn't really see a connection between driving and circumcision.
That said, I know a lot of people, male and female, who drive stick.
a little bit. yes.
it seems an odd thing to be wondering about, even for you. two things having nothing to do with each other.
It seems I have become my father in that all I want to do today is watch the weather channel. And it has moved from hurricane watch to wanting to transpose rainfall info from the storm over the drought map.
ita, did you mean know how to drive stick, or regularly drive a stick shift as their primary vehicle? Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick, but far fewer own a stick shift car.
Charleston SC has people kayaking in the Central Market right now. Facebook told me so.
The connection is they're not the majority, and they are things that are extra minority in the US, as opposed to other markets.
two things having nothing to do with each other
See above.
Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick, but far fewer own a stick shift car.
Really? I'd have thought it was closer to 50%, but that might be because I've forgotten how twice by now. Forgetting might be my weird thing, though. It isn't like riding a bike for me. If I don't spend more than a month or two doing it, and have gaps of over five or ten years, the next time I still have to practice before I'd be jumping on and off the highway, never mind heavy traffic and hills.
My first thought was Faith's line that "Willow's no longer driving stick!"
I can drive a car with manual transmission. As for the other part, I'll just point out that I was born in a hospital in 1962.
I think like flea said, driving stick (and even driving one primarily) was pretty common when I was growing up, and not so much anymore. But in high school every other person I knew was driving an old Beetle.
weather.com is telling me it is only 70% humidity in NOLA right now. I think they are mistaken.
Because IMO most people (75-80%?) over 30 know how to drive stick
I doubt it's that high for people 30-40. (I'm 33 and never even had access to a stick shift car to learn on.)
My parents were quite upset with my high school's driver's ed program because they didn't teach driving stick. For some reason, all the driver's ed cars were automatic -- and brand new, having been donated by the local GM plant. (At the end of the year, GM sold them at discount.
So after a certain point, my parents refused to own a car with an automatic transmission.