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About Me Member Mad Scientist DfyingGravityFemale/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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Driving a Stick: A Lost Art

Sun Sep 23, 2007, 8:46 PM
I can count the number of people I know who can drive a manual transmission on one hand. It really is a dying skill, even the driving school I go to only has automatics. Obviously, most people prefer automatics because they're SO much easier to handle, but I think it's preferable to know how to drive both just in case you, you know, go to a party with someone driving a manual and then they get hammered and you have to drive home.

Anyway, my mom's car is a stick, so obviously I have to learn how to drive it if I ever want to go anywhere without depending on her, so I've been dying to learn for a while. So my step-dad offered to teach me (if my mom tried to teach me, I would NOT survive it). So he took me to a parking lot with my mom's car and taught me to let the clutch in and out and how to not stall and everything. Of course, I stalled about a gazillion times, but I managed to not grind the gears. And by the end, I could start and stop and shift without lurching too much! HOORAY! And then he was like, 'ok, let's head home.'

Him: Ready to go home? You did a good job today.
Me: Yeah, ok. Thanks for teaching me!
Him: Sure! Ok, now drive us home.
Me: (chokes) WHAT?!
Him: Yeah, come on! You'll be fine!
Me: Ok...

So I drove home. On a stick-shift. My first time driving in traffic. And you know what? It wasn't so bad! I'm glad I can drive both a manual and automatic transmission, it'll be useful in the future, I'm sure.

There's my exciting story for today.

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  • Reading: Lord of the Flies
  • Watching: Uh...my screen?

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  • Current Residence: Your attic
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  • Favourite photographer: Brian Oglesbee. No, seriously.
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:iconlink--kenshin-4ever:
ah you live in my attic.. wait i don't have one.

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:iconsuperdocious007:
Woahz! It's Fnudge! :ohnoes:

I'm going to go rifle through your picturessssss~
This is Docious, by the way. Though that's probably obvious. :P


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:icondfyinggravity:
Docious!!! How did you find me? Did you get my email, btw? AAaah, now I will to call you and talk, aaaah!!!
:iconsuperdocious007:
Yush, I got your email :3

And you should definitely do that.


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"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." -Adlai Stevenson
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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:icondfyinggravity:
also, that little angry thing in my other message isn't really my emotion...i just accidentally clicked it ^^

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:icondfyinggravity:
hah, i just DID!
hey can you send me that thing with like a gazillion questions on it in your journal thing? i didn't really read it, but I want to fill it out...what the heck is it anyway?

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:iconsuperdocious007:
You could just copy and paste it and take out my answers :P It's a quiz.

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"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." -Adlai Stevenson
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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:iconcrimsonnightshade:
I like your gallery. ^^ the photos are very nice.

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:icondfyinggravity:
hey, thanks they're not actually art or anything, but i like them... ;p
:iconcrimsonnightshade:
I like them too! XD
D'ya wanna see my gallery? [link]

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