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Rise_Above (original poster member #23674) posted at 4:11 AM on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Anyone remember Laverne and Shirley?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPUOuUu18o&feature=related
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Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 9:14 AM on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
I can't watch videos on this little netbook, but in my personal life...my father tried to teach me how to drive a stick, then the very next day took the car into the shop and had it changed to an automatic transmission! 
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D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
lynnm1947 ( member #15300) posted at 4:03 PM on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Driving stick is great--especially if you want to own a sporty car. I sent both my son and daughter to Young Drivers to learn to drive stick shift. My daughter was delighted when she and her then boyfriend decided to move and turns out the moving U-Haul they had rented was stick and he boyfriend only drove automatic! She drove the moving van and she never let him live it down!
Age: 64..ummmmmmm, no...............65....no...oh, hell born in 1947. You figure it out!
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ooie32 ( member #8072) posted at 9:40 PM on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
my dad taught me by showing me the engineering on paper.
he taught me the theory behind it and then handed me the keys.
i learned it in an afternoon...
DS21 took a little longer. i thought he left a piece of my transmission back there......
moving forward to ardent hope...
chopper ( member #5772) posted at 10:19 PM on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Hahaha ooie
My dad also taught me the principle before the actual driving.
My ds just sat behind the wheel when he was around 13 or 14 and just drove off 
when I asked him how did he know what to do he said I've been watching you drive
Me BS(52) (39 at DD)
WH passed away on 3/21/2013(52) (44 at DD)
2 Kids S(27) D(24) (14 and 11 at DD)
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Kuwaited ( member #5491) posted at 3:32 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
My brother taught me on an MG Midget.
The friction point on that car was pretty near non-existent.
I guess he figured if I could learn on that...I could drive any stick.
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aLadypilot ( member #1822) posted at 3:40 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Divorced 9/2010
Just married 7/4/13
cryingdaily ( member #7276) posted at 3:54 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
I learned to drive one when I bought one. I had to have my then BF drive it off the lot and teach me. It was either learn it or don't drive.
Belle did the same thing. Then about 5 months before she deployed....Xena did the same thing.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the only way to learn. If you buy one, you have no choice.
ETA funny story: During the process of teaching me to drive my new car my BF and I got into a fight. At the point where I would have normally gotten in my car and sped of in a dramatic show of anger, I realized I couldn't. It was humbling to say to him in tears, "I really want to leave but I can't. Please back the car up for me so I can go home" I hadn't learned to make it go in reverse yet.
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UnexpectedSong ( member #21761) posted at 4:01 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
My brother taught me on his brand new Z28, decades ago. 
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BaxtersBFF ( member #26859) posted at 4:03 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
I learned on tractors on the farm. Drove my first car at 13 in the field taking a beer out to dad (it wasn't open until I handed it to him...).
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 4:21 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
Kuwaited: stbxwh tried to teach me to drive his MG Midget (1970 red rag top) I stalled it on the RR tracks; that was the end of the lesson
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
dreamlife ( member #8142) posted at 6:01 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
I learned to drive a stick, first. My dad had a VW bug. Then I learned how to drive a column shift.
My first sweet ride was a 1959 Austin Healey Bug Eye Sprite.
There was a very steep hill in San Francisco with a 4 way STOP sign up at the top...it was always a challenge, even to "seasoned" stick shift drivers who might be males. 
Ironically, when I drove my first automatic, I had a bit of a time trying to keep my left foot from "looking" for the clutch!
But that blue 1971 Dodge Colt turned out to be my favorite car and I sure miss him! 
~XWH told me what I wanted to hear but he always did whatever he wanted to do~
"He called me a bitch.
I called him an ambulance."
Linda H.)
neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 6:56 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
It's pretty much the standard way to learn in England, I can't think of anyone I know that was taught to drive in an automatic.
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imokay ( member #3522) posted at 11:05 AM on Thursday, September 9th, 2010
WE lived way out in the country when I was a kid. My dad taught me to drive a stick shift when I was 12.
By the time I could drive legally, we didn't have a stick shift. It was 25 years before I had another one. It's like riding a bike. You never forget how to do it.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the only way to learn. If you buy one, you have no choice.
My DD totalled her car last year and when she got a new one, she bought a stick shift. It took her a while to feel comfortable driving it, but she LOVES it now.
Me: BS - 58 now
Him: WS - 60 now
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EA/PA that lasted 10 months.
DD: 2/10/02
Fully reconciled.
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