Friday, May 19, 2006
Shift It
So, how does one go about learning to drive a stick shift?
I mean, I'd like to have options should I ever, say, need to buy a car. Or if I'm ever a contestant on Amazing Race.
My first idea is to rent a car with manual transmission, opt for all the insurance in the world, and go to town. Very slowly. While burning the clutch out.
But there must be another option? Driving school? Just me and a bunch of 15 year olds with a lerners permit and a need to go to the mall.
Help!
So, how does one go about learning to drive a stick shift?
I mean, I'd like to have options should I ever, say, need to buy a car. Or if I'm ever a contestant on Amazing Race.
My first idea is to rent a car with manual transmission, opt for all the insurance in the world, and go to town. Very slowly. While burning the clutch out.
But there must be another option? Driving school? Just me and a bunch of 15 year olds with a lerners permit and a need to go to the mall.
Help!
Comments:
I'm all for learning on Alamo's dime. Beware, I think you need someone in the passenger seat for the moment when you're yelling, cursing at the stick shift and unable to move your vehicle out of the middle of the road.....
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10:05 AM
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10:05 AM
I agree with fizzle on that one, always good to have someone there to push should the crap hit the fan...
I figure I need someone there with me to drive it off the lot so they don't see the car chug and stall each time I try to move a few feet.
I taught my wife in a 10 ton 12 gear dump truck... you know the big ones just like the little yellow tonka trucks.
How did I teach her? I was driving, told her she needed to learn, opened the drivers door and jumped up on to the roof of the truck. We were going to crash, or she was going to drive, one or the other.
Then i crawled over once we didn't crash and let myself in the passenger side door and taught her how to shift.
Hey, when I proposed the only promise I made is she wouldn't have a boring life. So far I've kept up my end of the deal.
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How did I teach her? I was driving, told her she needed to learn, opened the drivers door and jumped up on to the roof of the truck. We were going to crash, or she was going to drive, one or the other.
Then i crawled over once we didn't crash and let myself in the passenger side door and taught her how to shift.
Hey, when I proposed the only promise I made is she wouldn't have a boring life. So far I've kept up my end of the deal.
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