On Saturday, June 14, 2014 6:35:59 PM UTC-7, Cheri wrote:
> "Je�us" > wrote in message
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> > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 20:55:23 -0400, jmcquown >
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> >>On 6/12/2014 4:24 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
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> >>> On 6/12/2014 2:08 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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> >>>> Nancy Young wrote:
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> >>>>> They'd ban stick shifts, too, if that was the problem.
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> >>>> Not nearly the same thing... once learned driving stick is like riding
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> >>>> a bicycle or swimming, requires no more consious thought than
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> >>>> breathing... takes more consious thought to urinate than drive stick..
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> >>>> You obviously don't drive stick.
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> >>> SIGH.
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> >>> I can drive a stick better than an automatic. I never did
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> >>> get used to an automatic, and it's no fun to drive.
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> >>I dislike automatic transmissions. When my car was in the shop a few
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> >>years back after some old lady hit it in the Walgreen's parking lot, the
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> >>rental car was an automatic. It took me a couple of days to get used to
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> >>it. I was glad to get my car back.
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> > Automatics are for steerers, not drivers.
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> > Nobody apart from those with a disability should be able to get a
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> > licence unless you pass the test in a car with a manual box.
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> I did pass the test with a stick, and you also had to parallel park or you
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> didn't pass. To this day, I'm a great parallel parker, but the stick shift
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> is a nightmare in hilly places like San Francisco. I love automatics.
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> Cheri
Cheri, I couldn't tell from your post if you live in San Francisco now. I am from San Francisco and have always driven a stick until my last car, which is a Prius and only comes in automatic. I loved to drive a stick and miss it. Those hills are nothing to me
actually fun especially when you have tourists in your car.
I didn't take my driving test using a stick shift, but a huge Ford station wagon and we had to parallel park up the hill and down the hill. Yikes, that was tough! We couldn't forget to curb our wheels. You can get a ticket for not curbing your wheels (used to be anyway); I still do it even when parking on the flat.
Nellie