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"Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
- Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V
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I'm 43 and I learned how to drive a stick-shift about 15 years ago or so when I borrowed a friend's car to go job hunting and then had to pick her up after she was off work. I didn't realize the car wasn't an automatic until I sat in the driver's seat...I figured it out in a hurry though.
My last car (I haven't owned a car in about 8.5 years...can't afford it right now) was a 5-speed 1985 charger. I loved that piece of shit car - it looked awful but ran like a dream until near the end when it finally gave out. I couldn't afford to fix it up enough to drive it across the country when I moved so I gave it to a friend to do whatever he wanted with it. I would probably still have it if I could have afforded the repairs.
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I LOVE stick shifts.
The only problem is that my job does not like stick-shifts. Doing pizza delivery will tear up a clutch much much faster than normal. Hey even an automatic transmission will need service at more frequent intervals with this job.I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
-- Life Sucks Then You Die.
"I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."
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I wouldn't want to drive an automatic semi. Going up mountains is bad enough, an automatic transmission just seems like it'd slow to an absolute crawl pretty quickly. And then there's the downside. You generally want to keep your truck in as low a gear as you can manage going down to help regulate the truck's speed. Seems to me an automatic transmission would kind of bollix that.
I learned how to drive on a manual, by the get in and figure it out as I (tried to the first couple of times) go method. Took me maybe an hour or so to get used to the whole clutch thing, and then another week to be able to coordinate clutch and accelerator to start moving smoothly with no roll back from stops.You're only delaying the inevitable, you run at your own expense. The repo man gets paid to chase you. ~Argabarga
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The recommended method for hill starts involves juggling the accelerator, clutch *and* handbrake. You need your fourth hand on the steering wheel. But it's not as hard as it sounds.
Declutch and select first gear.
Use the handbrake to avoid rolling backwards. Release the catch, but hold it up.
Open the throttle slightly for a fast idle. Let in the clutch slowly, until the vehicle tries to move forwards instead of back. You should at least feel the strain come off the brakes.
That's when you let the handbrake go. All that remains is to continue letting the clutch in until it's fully engaged, then drive normally.
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Quoth Chromatix View PostThe recommended method for hill starts involves juggling the accelerator, clutch *and* handbrake. You need your fourth hand on the steering wheel. But it's not as hard as it sounds.
When I had my S-10 (where I learned to drive a stick), the emergency brake was on the floor by the clutch.
I had a situation once where I was on a small hill (couldn't tell you the grade). I was still relatively new to driving a manual, so every time I'd let off the brake to try to go through the stop sign I was at I'd roll backward a little. That's where I sort of picked up the "two feet on three pedals" trick. Especially since I kept stalling my truck, and then when a car pulled up behind me, I was afraid I'd roll back into them.
What I had to end up doing was pressing the clutch and brake with my left hand, and basically "dumping" the clutch at the same time I let off the brake and pushed the gas.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Quoth Chromatix View PostThe recommended method for hill starts involves juggling the accelerator, clutch *and* handbrake. You need your fourth hand on the steering wheel. But it's not as hard as it sounds.
I love my hand brakes, and I loathe people who sit at junctions with their foot jammed on the brake pedal, their overbright brake lights burning holes in my retina...This was one of those times where my mouth says "have a nice day" but my brain says "go step on a Lego". - RegisterAce
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Quoth Chromatix View PostThe recommended method for hill starts involves juggling the accelerator, clutch *and* handbrake. You need your fourth hand on the steering wheel.Quoth mjr View PostI'm assuming you're talking about 18-wheelers here.
Quoth crazylegs View PostHeh. My car has two gear sticks. Should flummox those auto only driversAny fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth Nunavut Pants View PostDeux Chevaux? Oh, my, I think I may love you!!
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Beware--that might be getting really "in" with the hipster crowd now!!
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OK, I know I love you now!!
(Don't let my wife hear me say that!!!)
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Quoth mjr View Post... That's where I sort of picked up the "two feet on three pedals" trick.“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world.
The other, of course, involves orcs." -- John Rogers
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Spotted in Feb 3rd edition of the Syracuse New Times:
Couple steal a car, owner sees it and calls police. Couple abandon car and call a cab, are caught when police arrive before the cab does.
Guy in couple couldn't drive stick. Girlfriend who could drive stick was giving him directions, but he still didn't "get it". Why not let his girlfriend drive the car?
Criminals are stupid.Any fool can piss on the floor. It takes a talented SC to shit on the ceiling.
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Quoth wolfie View PostA couple times a year, you hear about carjackers who abandon the vehicle less than a block from where they steal it, because they can't drive stick.
Years ago, around 2008, I think, I was walking out of Best Buy in my hometown. I looked up and noticed that my car was moving, without me in it. In my shock, I said to the guy next to me, "Hey! My car is being stolen!" The next minute is kind of a blur. The guy next to me asked which one and I said the green Civic, while at the same time grabbing my phone to call the cops. Then the thief abandoned my car and the giant dude who I'd exclaimed to ran and tackled him to the ground. I called 911 because now the giant dude was sitting on the thief in the middle of the parking lot, and I ran over to the car because it had stalled and begun to roll (slowly, this is Florida, which is primarily flat) and I wanted to engage the emergency brake to avoid further damage.
So the cops get there and cuff the guy, then ask the store to watch the parking lot footage. It clearly shows the thief jimmying the lock on my car and getting in. The cops look at him with a quizzical look and said "you got it out of the spot and were on your way. What made you abandon it?" The idiot thief replied only "I can't drive a stick".At the conclusion of an Irish wedding, the priest said "Everybody please hug the person who has made your life worth living. The bartender was nearly crushed to death.
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