[PA Engineer]

The salesman told me a lot of people were interested until they found out it was a stick shift. Nobody knows how to drive a standard transmission nowadays he said.

That is how I bought my daughter's car post graduation before she headed off to the patch. Her older vehicle would not have made it from PA to TX. She thanks me to this day. No one barrows her car. Even in the patch, they would climb inside and pop back out again.

It was a loaded Ford Fusion. 6K under book.

[HotHunt]

My wife knows how to drive a stick shift because she grew up on a farm and drove tractors from a young age.

We have a cattle farm now with two diesel tractors. Neither of us needed any training to drive them.

My truck is over ten years old now and pretty beat up from the cows and the Florida climate. It looks pretty rough.

But I never lock it when I go to town or the big city because I know the chances of someone stealing it are slim to none. Because of the stick shift.

I don't know what this "patch" is you speak of. Can you explain in English, please?