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Poll: Can you drive a stick shift (manual)?
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Re: Poll: Can you drive a stick shift (manual)?
They see us rollin'...they be hatin'.
Wont drive anything but a truck without one!
This is me but I've never owned one, just driven someone else's here or there. After 15 years without practice, I'd rather call 911.
Haven't in a while but did for years so I think it'd be like riding a bike.
I don't like a manual for rush hour traffic. But if I lived in the city or didn't deal with rush hour traffic I'd have another in a heartbeat - talk about being able to get up and go!!!
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
So Tasty, So Yummy
Ditto. We also have a 1965 Falcon that we just had restored and its a manual. I want to drive it so bad!
my brother and i were taught to drive on manuals and our first couple of cars were both manual. i'm so glad i learned to drive a manual when I was young. it definitely has saved me at times when out and a driver got too drunk and i had not been drinking and was able to drive people home.
Me too. My first car was a manual. I am so glad about that now because I feel like I could drive anything. However, when they gave me my car, I didn't know how to drive it. My mom almost sold it because I was so scared to stall out at every stop sign, so I would never drive the thing. After she threatened to sell it back, I sucked it up and learned.
She got me a manual because she thought it would make me pay more attention to driving. Wrong. It made me pay attention to the act of driving, but certainly did not make me pay more attention to the road or other drivers. I was too worried about getting the car going.
I would never want to go back to driving one full-time, but I do see the benefit of being able to drive it.
This. I've avoided manual cars since I've had so many issues with my left foot. I'm confident I could do it, but it certainly wouldn't be a smooth ride.
My first car was a manual, as was my second. One of the main reason I bought an automatic was because the office I was working in at the time had a seriously steep ramp to get into the parkin garage, and you had to stop at the top of the ramp to put in your key card. It drove me batty that people would get right behind my @ss on the ramp when it was slick from rain and I was trying not to roll/slide back into them! More times than I could count the parking attendant had to ask people to back up for me.
rrr's jeep is a stick, so it's nice we can both drive it.
I did have a hard time driving my dad's manual Z3 the last time I was visiting them though, because it is so much different from the jeep!
I had to in an emergency when a friend got stung by a jellyfish. We got stuck on a drawbridge, right at the front as it went up. I kept rolling back and almost hitting people. I had to wave everyone around me.
Since then I've owned a manual car. I hated it in stop and go rush hour in houston when I was having random contractions during my pregnancy. My next cars (and future ones) will be automatic. DH's car is manual and I avoid driving it at all costs, his VW has reverse in a different place then mine did which adds an extra element of confusion. If there was an emergency I could but I'm not a fan.
I dont know how to do it.
My dad owned them in the past and DHs mini was a stick when we were dating.
I like riding in them, they can really take off!