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pokychick
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 Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:28 Post subject: truamatized by mall security...
Early Sunday morning I took my stepson to the local mall to teach him how to drive my 5 speed. While we are there security is continuously circling the mall. At one point I could see this huge grin on his face. After watching us bunny hop through the parking lot, stall out, grind gears, curse, etc, etc he ends up right behind us at a stop sign.  My stepson had actually started to get the hang of it, however, he was quite nervous with the security guy right behind him. After stalling the car several times the security guard gets out of his vehicle and walks over and tells my stepson "not to be nervous, don't worry if people are behind you, or if they honk, try to just relax and you will be just fine." then he
walks back to his vehicle and after a few more times my stepson is finally able to get the car going.
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robp
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:31 Post subject:
He could've gotten a pad of paper out and acted like he was writing him a mall ticket..... 
New driver + 5 speed = great fun
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j1miller
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:31 Post subject:
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I Stall Sticks too!
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:39 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
I was trying to teach my wife how to drive a stick, as there are no malls in that town (or large parking lots) we hit the back streets. After about an 45 minutes of whiplash she was getting the hang of it. So we are cruising a long and this young kid on a 4 wheeler comes flying up the street but on the wrong side (i.e. our side) My wife is getting nervous but not slowing down. we are in a game of chicken and I don't think either party was going to give, so here I am yelling BRAKE, BRAKE!!!! but since she doesn't understand English she had no idea what I was yelling. ah, good times. 
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:41 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | robp wrote: | | New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
I was trying to teach my wife how to drive a stick, as there are no malls in that town (or large parking lots) we hit the back streets. After about an 45 minutes of whiplash she was getting the hang of it. So we are cruising a long and this young kid on a 4 wheeler comes flying up the street but on the wrong side (i.e. our side) My wife is getting nervous but not slowing down. we are in a game of chicken and I don't think either party was going to give, so here I am yelling BRAKE, BRAKE!!!! but since she doesn't understand English she had no idea what I was yelling. ah, good times. |
Dave tried to teach me once.... he went to the Jeep dealership and told them he was interested in buying a new wrangler... kept it for 24 hours and took it back....
It was him, not me.
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:41 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | robp wrote: | | New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
I was trying to teach my wife how to drive a stick, as there are no malls in that town (or large parking lots) we hit the back streets. After about an 45 minutes of whiplash she was getting the hang of it. So we are cruising a long and this young kid on a 4 wheeler comes flying up the street but on the wrong side (i.e. our side) My wife is getting nervous but not slowing down. we are in a game of chicken and I don't think either party was going to give, so here I am yelling BRAKE, BRAKE!!!! but since she doesn't understand English she had no idea what I was yelling. ah, good times. |
So I should update my formula to:
New driver + 5 speed + language barrier = soiled shorts?
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:42 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Running Brewer wrote: | | robp wrote: | | New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
I was trying to teach my wife how to drive a stick, as there are no malls in that town (or large parking lots) we hit the back streets. After about an 45 minutes of whiplash she was getting the hang of it. So we are cruising a long and this young kid on a 4 wheeler comes flying up the street but on the wrong side (i.e. our side) My wife is getting nervous but not slowing down. we are in a game of chicken and I don't think either party was going to give, so here I am yelling BRAKE, BRAKE!!!! but since she doesn't understand English she had no idea what I was yelling. ah, good times. |
So I should update my formula to:
New driver + 5 speed + language barrier = soiled shorts? |
 I wanna drive with RB!
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 16:50 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
So I should update my formula to:
New driver + 5 speed + language barrier = soiled shorts? |
I was about to pull the hand brake until I remembered the word I wanted in Spanish. (FYI Frena! is the phrase one may need in this situation)
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 18:00 Post subject:
| Running Brewer wrote: | | robp wrote: |
So I should update my formula to:
New driver + 5 speed + language barrier = soiled shorts? |
I was about to pull the hand brake until I remembered the word I wanted in Spanish. (FYI Frena! is the phrase one may need in this situation) |
Frena is not the spanish translation to:"Holy sh*t we're all gonna die" 
Cool mall cop, Poky!! That was a way cool thing to do.
I learned how to drive stick when I bought a stick shift to replace my car that had just been totaled--and drove it back to college from Houston to Lubbock. Nothing like a brazillion miles to teach you something.
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 18:01 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: | | Nothing like a brazillion miles to teach you something. |
And a brazillion miles it is!
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 18:28 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | He could've gotten a pad of paper out and acted like he was writing him a mall ticket.....
New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
how about an old driver + new to 5 speed = ?
thinking my next purchase may be a 5 speed. I've only ever driven around the block 3 times in my friend's 1983 sentra with a bad clutch. I didn't kill it and it was even a hilly block. But thats all I've ever done.
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 18:46 Post subject: Re: truamatized by mall security...
| pokychick wrote: | After stalling the car several times the security guard gets out of his vehicle and walks over and tells my stepson "not to be nervous, don't worry if people are behind you, or if they honk, try to just relax and you will be just fine." then he
walks back to his vehicle and after a few more times my stepson is finally able to get the car going. |
easy for him to say!!
i had cold sweats for months after learning to drive a stick! i would pray aloud that God would not have me stop on that hill at the red light....please let them all be green...for the love of Pete, let them all be greeeeeeeen!
two points for even trying to teach him the stick.
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 18:47 Post subject:
| cherylpf wrote: | | robp wrote: | He could've gotten a pad of paper out and acted like he was writing him a mall ticket.....
New driver + 5 speed = great fun |
how about an old driver + new to 5 speed = ?
thinking my next purchase may be a 5 speed. I've only ever driven around the block 3 times in my friend's 1983 sentra with a bad clutch. I didn't kill it and it was even a hilly block. But thats all I've ever done. |
I taught myself at 28 by reading something online. I drove it for 5 years with no problems but in the end went back to an automatic. Too many long hours stuck in traffic and getting resentful of the thing. It was definitely fun at times...but in the end not worth it to me. You can definitely learn though...I did. Maybe if I had always driven one I wouldn't feel like it was just extra work in traffic.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 20:03 Post subject:
| airehead wrote: |
Frena is not the spanish translation to:"Holy sh*t we're all gonna die"
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I'm not allowed to know those words... 
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Posted: 03/22/06 - 20:24 Post subject:
That's great. I never learned to drive a stick really. But one night when I was prolly 17 DH and I were out and he drank way to much so I had to drive. I drove his 1968 GTO home. It was a 4-speed. I never stalled it once but the garage was at the top of a hill. I gunned it up the hill and hit the break just as the front bumper hit the garage door! It stalled right there. 
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