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To: Libloather

Long ago when the drinking age was 18, I learned to simultaneously drive, operate a manual transmission and drink beer.

These skills I fear are lost amongst the young.


9 posted on 09/04/2026 2:31:47 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie
Long ago when the drinking age was 18, I learned to simultaneously drive, operate a manual transmission and drink beer.

While smoking cigarettes and throwing the empty bottles left-handed over the roof to hit the road signs on the passenger side... and also shoot the road signs between empties.

Yeeeeeeee hawwwwwwwwww

17 posted on 09/04/2026 2:38:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Jacquerie

While smoking cigarettes and tuning tge radio

But…the car never beeped at me. There was no: buckle your seat belt! You’re about to run out of gas! Etc


19 posted on 09/04/2026 2:41:31 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Jacquerie

I leared how to drive a stick on a 1931 Ford Model A.
Three speed crash box.
My dad taught me how to double clutch and how to shift without the clutch.

Drove a VW beetle for about a decade and currently have two of them.


27 posted on 09/04/2026 2:50:45 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: Jacquerie

These skills I fear are lost amongst the young

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well put


28 posted on 09/04/2026 2:51:16 PM PDT by thinden (Buckle Up!)
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To: Jacquerie

And smoke a cigarette at the same time .


47 posted on 09/04/2026 3:16:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Jacquerie

In Italy, I could negotiate turns, shift and honk the horn all at the same time/


63 posted on 09/04/2026 3:42:00 PM PDT by vis a vis
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To: Jacquerie

I was doing that underage!

LOL


68 posted on 09/04/2026 3:48:01 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Jacquerie

You left out smoking!


112 posted on 09/05/2026 5:13:44 AM PDT by pingman (Hi Ho Silver! AWAY!)
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