March 10, 2004
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Stick Shifter
Thassright, he has done the impossible! Many men have tried, and miserably failed. After much needling and wheedling and irrefutable matter-of-fact-hurling, Bryon convinced me to go out for a driving lesson Sunday afternoon. Me and the Taupemobile were cruising the ToysR Us parking lot while I mastered the art of cranking it into first gear, and apparently I am a natural stick-shifter. All the more reason to buy a Jeep, I say.
Last night was not so fun. I was doing okay in the parking lot, and then I got stuck, probably because I was tired and frustrated and anxious, and I had myself a leetle hissy over it. But the thing is, and the hedgehog is right, we cannot go road tripping if I cannot drive the Taupemobile. This stupid little thing is stressing me out. And there is so much to do before we can leave…….things to pack, stuff to get rid of, learning to drive, figuring out where we want to live, money to save, and saying goodbye to everything i know here…..some days it seems like we’ll just end up…….stuck…….here….for another dreadful winter.
But, on the good side, I got the whole first gear-clutch-second gear thing down pat. Vroom!
Comments (2)
wait until you have to stop on a hill…i bought a stick shift without knowing how to drive one and i drove it home off the lot. i thought it easy to drive. bahahaha. it was a rough couple of months driving in the city. lots of horn blowing directed at me!!! good luck to ya.
cars… heehee guess there’s a theme going on here huh? man I could so use some one liners…but I won’t. Good job oxy, once you got the stick down all other cars will be easy peasy- I still gotta learn to mastah the crank.