HeeHeeHee,
I loved watching the “experts” try to stop on an upward hill, and then get things rolling without popping the clutch or rolling backwards into the car behind or stalling and dying.
I taught my kid sister how to deploy the foot brake. Get the clutch out to the point where the engine just barely started to sound like a stall, then pop the brake.
She showed up so many guys, they quit going out with her.
My dad taught me that fine art as well. There was a steep hill close to where we lived, with no traffic at all (an abandoned property development) and I figure I must’ve practiced for hours on end until I finally got it. He had me do that again and again and again until I mastered it.
Actually, I’m really glad he did, because the majority of autos here in Europe are manual transmission. I’ve met a few young American expats who grumble about not being able to rent a car here because they simply don’t know how to drive it. You can, of course, rent an automatic but it’s more expensive and there’s a couple of rental agencies in my town that have no automatic transmission cars at all in their fleet.