driving a stick shift
By snowcat46
@snowcat46 (2322)
United States
January 12, 2009 3:50pm CST
Who among you knows how to drive a stick shift? it seems to be a dying art, or is it? Who taught you and how difficult was it for you to learn?
I was taught by the father of a friend. I can still remember sitting at the bottom of a hill, trying to get up that hill and constantly killing the engine. While this father tried to explain what I was doing wrong, showed me how to do it right, and sat and laughed every time I killed it. I was 19 at the time.
How about you? Was your learning noteworthy?
2 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Jan 09
i guess i can stick drive a stick, it's been alon time, i learnwedfro watching orthers, my mother had a lady who use to work forher & she had a car w/a stich & she;d let me drive it till my dad caught on. lol
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
13 Jan 09
All vehicles are not created equal. Why didn't he want you driving it? Too young?
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@tinkerick (1257)
• United States
12 Jan 09
I think I was 17 or 18 when I learned how to drive stick shift. My brother gave me a crash course right before we left to go look at a car I was thinking of buying - which was stick shift. I drove it home - didn't kill it! Had that car for 2 or 3 years.
@snowcat46 (2322)
• United States
13 Jan 09
No hills? They are fun once you get used to them, aren't they?
