Baby, Can You Drive My Car? Not If It's a Stick Shift - WSJ

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1. Since I was 16... 'Learned the hard way when I bought a car my Dad did not approve and he merely dropped me off

letting me figure out for myself how to get home. This was in an East Coast city with a lot of hills and I continue to apologize (silently) to all those people who had to bear with me stalling out at every damned stoplight. But damn if I did not become a clutch/manual transmission PRO by the time I finally made it home.


It irks me now to see service departments--even dealerships--not ensuring that their employees know how to drive a manual. The owner should not be the one that has to drive their manual car on and off the lifts--something I had to do repeatedly for my sister's Jeep Wrangler recently (in GA, not Colorado, where presumedly a lot more off-road 4-wheelers still have the skill).