Learn to drive a stick shift

...especially since my boyfriend drives (and loves) a stick shift. =P It’d be nice to be able to drive his car around (even more so considering it’ll be our car someday… =D). He wants to teach me, I’ve just been reluctant because I don’t exactly want to spend my free afternoons learning to drive all over again. =P But, it’s gotta happen sooner rather than later.

Driving a stick shift is not nearly as hard as it sounds. Learning how to drive a stick will open up a whole new world of vehicles that you can drive, and jobs that you can do!!
I highly recommend it!!!

There have been a few times I’ve tried to drive a stick, none of them have turned out to well.

Last night, my boyfriend took me to a parking lot and let me drive his car. I circled for about a half hour. Once I’m actually going, chaging gears is a breeze…just the starting and stopping without stalling, that’s the problem.

i’ve been taught in the past but never really got the hang of it. that was awhile ago though and i really want to learn how for real.

i want to learn to drive stick-shift…without killing it every five minutes. haha

I took the car out today. I didn’t stall once while driving around the neighborhood. HOWEVER, I couldn’t park the car in the garage cause I kept stalling on the driveway. But whatever, I’m just happy I didn’t stall on the road. Still need to practice but getting a lot better.

Well, after all this time of complaining that I have no opportunity to learn I am silenced. I felt I would never have the opportunity to learn since everyone that owns a manual does not want the wear and tear on their clutch. Understandable, but how is a person supposed to learn? I guess by buying their own manual transmission like I did. My car finally broke down again (for it’s last time). I’ve been long over due for a new car so off to the dealership we went just to look. Majority of the cars on the lot were manuals. This would not have been an issue except I actually like 2 of the cars enough to ask my husband to test drive them. When he and the dealer both looked at me and said “But you cannot drive a manual…” my only reply was “and what better way to learn?” My husbands car is a standard also, so there is no giving up on this one. I went out to day to a parking lot for about 20 minutes just working on 1st gear. Shifting is not an issue…stalling is. I hope this takes less than a month. It’s nerve racking to own a car and having to sit in the passenger seat while someone else drives you around all the time!

I’ve been out twice in the last two days with my dad to practice. I’m getting a lot better. I’m still not confident enough to be on actual busy roads, but at least I know if I HAD to drive a standard in a emergency I could.

Vroom vroom

This may not be hard but it’s not my priority at the moment. One day though…