Driving Lesson
Today, I gave my wife a driving lesson in the Subaru with its manual transmission. She is a competent driver (in U.S. and UK, so she has driven on both sides of the road), but she never had a reason to drive a stick. Now she wants to learn how to drive the Subaru. She did quite well, BTW.
posted by Pedicularis @ 10:50 PM
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Driving on both sides of the road... in both countries. ;)
Drive a 'stick.' Makes me think that it is a Halloween reference to riding a broom. Nah, you wouldn't mean that!
Yes, stick as in "stick shift," not a broom. :)
I discovered when talking to the car salesmen that I used the phrase "stick shift", but they used the proper term "manual transmission." There is a lingo used by car salesmen, such as "air" to mean air conditioning, and "automatic" to mean automatic transmission (even though almost everything is automatic is a modern car).
A friend of mine just used the term "standard transmission" to mean manual transission, in a throw-back to the 1950s when automatic transmissions were non-standard and rare.
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