Do you drive manual transmission?

[partiallysunny]

Yes and he should be able to learn by August.

[DotAndBuzz]

Jan 15, 2015 11:54:24 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

Yes, I learned to drive using manual.  It's kind of fun! 

Edit:  If you are stopped on hills, learn the emergency brake trick,  where you put on the emergency brake and slowly release it as you are easing on the clutch and stepping on the gas.

So I just need to grow a 3rd foot, and I'll be good to go.  Sweet!

[lilafowler]

Nope. I tried twice in my early 20s and couldn't do it. I don't know anybody with a manual transmission so it's nbd.

[karenj]

My H and I both do.  He actually has a Saturn Vue that has a standard transmission.  It used to be mine.  He admitted a few months ago that I actually drive it better than he does.  He constantly jerks around.  I hate riding with him.

[litebright]

Nope. DH attempted to teach me several times over the last 10 years and I just plain suck at it.

[thecatinthehat]

I don't but I can

[itsme]

I learned on manual.

[waffletime]

Jan 15, 2015 12:46:51 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

Jan 15, 2015 11:54:24 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

Yes, I learned to drive using manual.  It's kind of fun! 

Edit:  If you are stopped on hills, learn the emergency brake trick,  where you put on the emergency brake and slowly release it as you are easing on the clutch and stepping on the gas.

So I just need to grow a 3rd foot, and I'll be good to go.  Sweet!

I'm pretty sure manuals all have hand lever ebrakes for this reason. All the ones I've driven have anyways.

[sporky]

Nope, no need. Automatics for lyfe.

[BAMFMrsB]

I could, in an emergency, sasy get us to the hospital, sure.

Will the clutch be burned out? Probably so. Maybe if DH wasn't such an awful teacher, I'd have learned by now. After 15 years of being together, with DH owning 5 manual cars in that time? You'd think I'd have gotten it together by now, but NOPE.  

I will say newer cars are so much easier to NOT stall out. :Y: 

[DotAndBuzz]

Jan 15, 2015 13:04:16 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Jan 15, 2015 12:46:51 GMT -5 DotAndBuzz said:

So I just need to grow a 3rd foot, and I'll be good to go.  Sweet!

Lol!  I think in many manual transmission vehicles, this is a hand brake. 

Clearly I missed that lesson in my training.  H (then BF) probably tried to tell me but I was too busy freaking the fuck out about a rolling car/ruining the clutch. 

[sergey]

I drive an automatic daily but have a race car that's a manual so I had to learn and I could drive one around town if needed. I only had two weeks to learn so I'd say if you have access to one, get him behind the wheel and make him figure it out before the trip.

[mrsjuleshs]

Iv'e owned several cars that were standards but I currently drive an automatic. In the traffic here, I don't think I will ever buy another standard.

[lightbulbsun]

Yes, my car is manual.

[libbride]

I do, but my husband can't. I figured out at a young age that they don't typically make super fancy sports cars in automatic. So I'm set if I ever win the lottery and buy that Ferrari!

[thebreakfastclub]

I will learn if I am chosen for the Amazing Race someday.

[aliciar6]

Yup, all of my cars have been manual transmissions. We just bought our first automatic since they don't make the full size truck we want in a manual.

[bania]

Yes I know how. I used to love it but I'm too lazy for that now.

[gault]

Yep. My Focus is a manual

[donnamartingraduat]

Of course.

[janegold]

No. I was taught as a teenager on a neighbor's car but I've never had to actually drive one so it's not something I retained. Judge away.

[emjacobs]

Can but don't.

[iamali]

I don't at present, but I do have the ability.  My first car was a manual.

[Deleted]

Many moons ago I owned a Wrangler and a VW Beetle that were stick. I loved it at the time - college and post-college. I have no patience for it in my old age though.

[open24hours]

I can't. When I learned to drive, no one I knew had a manual. It was kind of stupid to own one where I lived.

[HiC]

Yes, I prefer manual. My current car is automatic though.

[moolarkey]

I can, don't currently. Taught DD in 2 hours when we bought her a new VW Beatle. She and I picked it up, went to the empty lot behind a shopping mall. I explained how it worked, demo'd it for about 5 minutes. She hopped in and took to it like a duck to water.

Cutest car ever, vapor blue. I loved that car. After college she bought a red manual Volvo and now has a black manual Mazda something. Her H cannot drive a stick. My H can, my son cannot.

[Deleted]

Yes, however; my daily car is an automatic. DH has always owned a manual, so his daily is a manual and if need be I do drive it. However; my legs are short and with a big pregnant belly I can't drive it now and he makes fun of me!

Also, I agree with you it's a basic life skill. However; none of my sisters or brother in laws ever learned and it completely baffles my mind.

[Deleted]

Yep, manual was my first car. Glad I learned then. Then I bought a manual after college.

It came in handy for all my travelling.

If I have to buy another car soon I'd get a manual.

[panbitch]

DH's car is a manual Accord and I will say driving it as a short person SUCKS! To get the clutch all the way in I have to put the seat so far forward if the airbag ever goes off I am getting a nose job and possibly knee replacements. I don't know who they designed this car for but someone with REALLY long legs.