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This week's burning question is:

Can you drive a stick shift?
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

In theory I can, but it has been a long time. One of my friends prefers stick - she has the sporty car and her husband has the stodgy sedan. Sort of a role reversal.
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Smile, it will make them wonder what you are up to!

I used to be able to, but havent for years, wonder if its like riding a bike, though im not sure i want to get on one of those anymore either, meeheehee
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PHTessie

Well, I'm kind of in the same boat. Is it like riding a bicycle? LOL First car was a stick and have driven a few since but it's been about a dozen years now. Assume I still could if necessary.

No.

My father had a heart attack teaching me how to drive stick - landed in the Cleveland Clinic for a triple bypass. No one would get in the car with me again afterwards.

I sure am sorry to hear about your Father!

I found it is like riding a bike. I drove military vehicles and owned a sporty Mustang in my 20s (all stick shift). I went many years without driving one and when I then next had to, it came back to me instantly.
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Tammy
Stanley and Pookey

No, I cannot. My first car was a stick. A brand new Dodge sports car of some kind. I was scared to drive it. I had it for one year and finally traded it in with only 3,000 miles on it. I bought automatics only since that first time.

BTW, it is now 67º in Des Moines. Happy Spring to all!
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Ruby and the Kitties
Simba, Samantha, Katrina & KatyKatt
Meow!! Meow!! Meow!! Meow!!

How wonderful to do nothing and then rest afterwards. Meow!

Not really. BF is trying to teach me. I have had one lesson. We made it home safely from the high school parking lot.
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Jaime owned by
Mya the dog
and the cats:Crash, Gabby and Tucker

Oh yeah - I just traded in my stick-shift last August for an automatic - the first in 30 years. If my knees would withstand the "stop and go" of city traffic when there is an accident on the interstate, I would still have one. Unfortunately, the knees are giving out quicker than me wanting to drive an automatic.
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Boris's Human, Pam

Nope, I learned to drive an automatic and stuck with it......but I did ride motorcycles in my younger days, that is kind of like driving a stick........

PHKitkat

Oh, yeah.... learned on a 56 Chevy with no synchromesh. I have mostly had stick shift cars since then. My current car is an automatic. I wanted a hybrid car and they only come with automatic transmissions.

Well, when hubby and I were dating, he had a Chevy Corvair (brings ya back, right?). He would drive, and had his right arm around me (bucket seats). My job was to shift, listening to the engine, and he would step on the clutch and I would shift. All was going well, until that fateful day. On our way up a hill, he told me shift it into 2nd. Dingbat put it in reverse, and the guy in back of us had heart failure seeing the backup lights go on up that steep hill.
Since then, and forever more, I drive an automatic.

he had a Chevy Corvair (brings ya back, right?).
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Had to share this one with Big Scary Man - he sold his last corvair about a year before we met (and someday I'm going to come home to another one sitting in my spot in the garage, I just know it!) He understood completely - if a little surprised - if I had slammed his "other girlfriend" into reverse, I really doubt we'd be married today.

You must have really turned hubby's head when you two met!

Yep! Wish I still had one, too.