On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 21:25:55 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>"Cheri" > wrote in message
...
>> I did pass the test with a stick, and you also had to parallel park or you
>> didn't pass. To this day, I'm a great parallel parker, but the stick shift
>> is a nightmare in hilly places like San Francisco. I love automatics.
>
>I never learned to drive one. When I took Driver's Ed, for some reason, we
>didn't have one. We had a simulator that was supposed to be a stick, but
>mine was totally broken. They showed you a film. You were supposed to
>start and stop the car when they told you to and react to whatever was on
>the screen. I think it also told you to do things like turn corners or
>change lanes. But since mine wasn't recording anything, it was all very
>useless. My friend and I got passed because the teacher didn't observe us
>doing anything wrong.

Passed, as in issuing you a drivers licence?
If so, I find that very hard to believe, even though I'm not familiar
with how things work 'over there' in regards to driver training and
licensing.

>Then when I was older, my friend told me that I would have to drive her bug.
>I can't remember her strange reasoning now but she had used fake ID to buy
>beer. I think perhaps her ID wasn't a driver's license. Can't remember. I
>do remember limping the thing across the parking lot of the 7-11. I
>couldn't make it go more than a foot before it would die.
>
>Not long after that, she parked it on the street and a drunk driver hit it
>and some other cars. Hit them very badly. She found pieces of it all over
>in people's yards for about a block.

ROTFL. How could a collision between two cars possibly spread debris
over an entire block? Especially in a built up area.

>The main part of it and the other cars
>got towed away because there was so little left of them.

And presumably all buildings and people in the area, going on the
inexplicable amount of energy released during this collision, as well.