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- From: tflynn@encore.com (Tonya Flynn)
- Subject: Re: FLAME! Only a Manual!
- Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:32:18 GMT
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- I've tried so hard to stay out of this discussion but just can't
- stand it anymore so I guess I'll just 'have' to add my $.02
- worth. It's been so long now I can hardly figure out who said
- what but in essense, the comment that drove this response is:
-
- >>Yeah...My mother's not willing to try either. When her car was in the shop,
- >>I said that she was welcome to use mine. I had to drive her all over town
- >>because she never could be bothered to learn how to REALLY drive(ARRRGH!)
- >>
-
- When I was in high school my father showed up in a 1966 Mustang
- Convertible-powder blue. It, of course, had a manual 3-speed and
- my Mother had never learned to drive a stick. Well, our driveway
- could accommodate six cars easily provided they were in a straight
- line. You see it coming don't you. Well, after a few times when
- she couldn't get her car out of the driveway because she was unable to move
- the Mustang out of the way, she DEMANDED that my Father get rid of
- that car. I was devastated. I loved that car and my Dad got a real
- kick out of driving it. That was many, many years ago and I still
- remember it like it was yesterday. Everybody should know how to
- drive a stick. What if it had been an emergency instead of just an
- inconvenience?
-
- Way back when I took driver's ed, in the days when you used real cars
- and real roads, we were required to learn on both manual and
- automatics. Although we took our 'final exam' in an automatic
- (you know the one--the test with parallel parking, and u-turns and
- stops without spilling a drop of water, etc), we had to have logged
- a certain number of hours in a stick. Why aren't people taught to
- drive both automatic and manuals?
-
- Anyway, I haven't owned a stick in years and I don't plan on ever
- buying another one, but I do get a smile on my face every time I
- do drive a stick on those rare occasions (like my friend's
- mint-condition TR6). I understand what those guys are trying
- to say about the fun of driving a stick (a fun you can't really
- describe) but I don't agree that you're 'not a driver' if you
- elect to drive automatics. Anyway, jumping in the middle of
- this thread was fun. I now return you to your regularly scheduled
- programming.
-
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- Tonya (I'd rather be Sailing) Flynn /|\ 6901 W. Sunrise Blvd.
- (305/797-2446) / | \ Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33313
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