It's like I'm in high school again

[sawyerthedestroyer]

So I'm thirtyfuckingyearsold and learning how to drive stick. H took me out to a huge empty parking lot and I got behind the wheel and we cruised around and stalled out a lot, a couple accidental burnouts, and so on and so forth.

It was a good lesson (we didn't kill each other!) so I'm being "rewarded" tonight by getting to drive us to get pizza.

I'm having flashbacks.

ETA: Sorry this isn't an interesting "You guys are a bunch of immature bitches" rant.

[pittsmcgee]

I love driving a stick (heh)
I miss having one.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

It's actually not as bad as I thought it was going to be. After driving automatic for so long it's second nature so I was all "I don't want to have to THINK while driving!"

[pittsmcgee]

Traffic sucks, but there was always something fun about driving them. Like a video game.
Good luck with it

[Deleted]

Ughh, I'm dreading the day when my h gets sick of owning automatic cars and forces me to learn manual. I know that day is coming...

[TrickyBob]

My Husband wants me to learn stick and I don't want to. I tried driving stick and did pretty well in a truck that had a push button to start and no direction written out to tell me what to shift into. Nor was it able to tell me what my speed or RPMs were. Husband swears I did fantastic and that when I learn in a vehicle that is newer and a lot better, that I will do fine.

But like you, I don't want to have to think about shifting!

And the idea of stalling on a hill and rolling backwards into someone scares the living shit out of me. I KNOW I'll be the idiot who does it.

[gault]

But you're doing it! Which is awesome.

I love driving manual.

[AlpineSlide]

oh god. that sounds like my nightmare. I've never been taught but I was in the truck when my dad was trying to teach my sister. I was 14 and she was 16 and it was hilariously awful. She only had that one lesson and to this day neither she nor I can drive a stick. ha!

[Deleted]

My husband tried teaching me in his Chevelle. Oh. My god. It was difficult!! The seat doesn't move and I have insanely short legs. I would shift from 1st to 4th without thinking. It was impossible for me to GET into 1st lol. It was comical.

[Kit]

I cannot drive stick.

[sugarplum]

I haven't driven in over a year because I haven't learned stick. H takes the car to work and I can just walk into town if I need anything. It would be nice to learn so I can steal the car for some day trips. We just haven't made the time to go out and practice.

[awick14]

I prefer to drive stick.

I find it more interesting to drive. (If that makes sense)

[Deleted]

I don't know how to drive stick.

I cannot be on The Amazing Race until I learn. LOL.

[cc]

I am 34 and have never learned how to drive one.

I also can't parallel park. lol

[firedancer49]

I love driving stick, dh has one, but I hate it in traffic. I hadnt driven one in forever and had to bc my car was in the shop and a refresher with him was torture.

[moolarkey]

Pick a road with out hills that have traffic lights at the top. When I learned to drive stick, our street was basically in a valley. To go anywhere we had to go up a hill either way. Both had traffic lights at the top and I would always get stuck. I can't tell you how many times I'd end up rolling backwards in to the car behind me until I got going.

[rex]

I do not know how to drive stick.

If my H tried to teach me it would not end well.

[Deleted]

I cannot parallel park. I will seriously drive around the block 800 times to find a spot where I don't have to parallel park.

[poisonkisses]

My H's car is a standard. He took me out to an empty parking lot twice to try and teach me. Both times ended with me freaking out and yelling. I'm not sure I'm coordinated enough to move my arms and legs properly at the same time. So instead of driving his car, I take the bus. Fun.

[meggers5]

A few years ago we had a stick. My dad taught me how to drive it, but I was terrible. My parents took our automatic away for the weekend once and on my way driving (jerking) to the shop, I saw a friend from high school walking with his friend. They both hopped in my car for a drive to the store.
I did not invite them for a drive lol. I was so embarrassed to have to drive his friend that I never met. It was lucky no one got whiplash.

[underwaterrhymes]

I tried learning to drive stick when I was 17.

It did not go well.

21 years later I regret not pushing harder to learn. There's nothing for me to learn on, though, so I remain sadly unskilled in the art of driving manual vehicles.

Also if I ever made it on the Amazing Race, I'd be screwed.

[livinitup]

I learned to drive stick on a trip in Ireland because we couldn't rent an affordable automatic. The cool thing was that since the wheel was on the "other side" I practiced shifting while my (then) BF shifted with his feet. The feet part was easy. Once I was a bit confident on the stick, it all came together.

You have to *think* when you learn, then it becomes second nature. I highly recommend the skill.

[Jermys]

I drive stick every day (that's what she said) and I stalled it today when I drove out of the parking lot at Edith's school.