The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1186565]

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Comments

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

They weren't even teaching manual in public school driver's ed when I was in high school, and that's a couple of dogs' ages ago.

[controuble.livejournal.com]

Nope - they quit teaching manual in driver's ed a LONG time ago. I learned how in the '70s after we bought one. Hubs taught me how in the parking lot at work after 2nd shift got off.

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

...but you were introduced by T'B on his Corvair, before he sold you the automatic one *smile*.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

I sold my old F150 last week, so the only vehicles left that I drive on a regular basis are now automatics. Still, for a long time I'd have trouble driving an automatic because I kept trying to mash the clutch. (Two years of testing vehicles at the emissions station and I can switch without even blinking. It was always fun to get one with a malfunctioning synchronizer or missing a gear ...)

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

* Learn a manual and you can drive _any_ car, truck or whatever made.

* With a manual you're driving. People who drive automatics are just pointing their vehicle in the general direction of travel.

* I submit that if everyone drove manuals freeway traffic would be a lot smoother and rush hour wouldn't be as stressful as it is.

Bias - two of the three cars in my driveway are automatics. Ya - just try buying a new car with a stick - the salesman looks at you funny and your wife nudges you under the table to 'shut up before they think you're a crank'.

[gundo.livejournal.com]

And if you can drive a two-speed axle, even better

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I'm a LAZY bastard (WELL, aside from the fact that I'm not actually a bastard).

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

Controuble's dad ordered a stick shift van. The salesman looked at me and said I wouldn't be able to drive it, would I? I allowed as how I drove 4-on-the-floor every day (an Austin Healey 3000) and that I thought I could remember how to drive 3-on-a-tree *grin*. Currently drive a 5-speed '91 Honda Civic.

[awfulhorrid.livejournal.com]

Now see, that's the point at which I would have walked out of the dealership, possibly after stopping and explaining to the manager how the salesman's sexist comment just cost a sale ...

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I need a stick shift. I miss my darling little Del Sol so much - automatics aren't *real* driving. I do love my van, but... *sigh*

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how to drive a manual transmission, all the cars I've driven have had automatic. So that is my choice by default.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Anyone who says "I never learned how to drive a stick" is being needlessly verbose, because they could have left off the last two words without changing the meaning.

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

*snork*

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Im glad I read the responses first. I was on a completely different track.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

It's much more fun to start working on "automatic" and only read the manual as a last resort!

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

I learned to operate a clutch when I was six (on a motorcycle). And I started driving SERIOUS clutches, on tractors, when I was twelve. Driving without a clutch is like driving naked. And not in the fun, sexy way.

[starstraf.livejournal.com]

I want to answer manual and would if just me - but after 5 years of trying to teach pooch manual I gave up - and with an automatic he at least does some road trip driving