On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:12:52 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

>On 6/14/2014 8:55 PM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 6/12/2014 4:24 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>>> On 6/12/2014 2:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>> They'd ban stick shifts, too, if that was the problem.
>>>>
>>>> Not nearly the same thing... once learned driving stick is like riding
>>>> a bicycle or swimming, requires no more consious thought than
>>>> breathing... takes more consious thought to urinate than drive stick.
>>>> You obviously don't drive stick.
>>>
>>> SIGH.
>>>
>>> I can drive a stick better than an automatic. I never did
>>> get used to an automatic, and it's no fun to drive.
>>>
>>> nancy
>>
>> I dislike automatic transmissions. When my car was in the shop a few
>> years back after some old lady hit it in the Walgreen's parking lot, the
>> rental car was an automatic. It took me a couple of days to get used to
>> it. I was glad to get my car back.
>
>I wonder if the stick waggers have ever had to commute in a crowded
>city? I've driven with a stick in Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris and you
>can keep it!

Yeah, it's such a trauma, isn't it...