the hilarious attempts to parallel park by those under 35. Heaven help you if you get stuck behind one in the traffic lane.
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Several years ago, I told a co worker he could use my pick up to make an emergency trip from work to home.
About a 15 minute round trip to the parking lot back in to our work area. He came in, handed me back my keys and said he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift.
I believe his face might have turned red except he was a black man, I don’t think black people get red faces.
By the way he was an all around family man, hard worker and good friend. Just ignorant about stick shifts.
I have a 1988 F-150.
When someone wants to borrow mt truck, I have to give them instructions...
the first thing that confuses them is the round key and the square key,
and then it is the foot operated high-beam dimmer switch on the floor,
and then there is the switch to swap from the front tank to the rear tank.
A guy I once worked for loaned me his cherry 1956 Chevy pickup to move my stuff to a new house. This was in 1994.
I almost turned him down, due to the fact that it was a classic, but I was out of options, so I accepted his offer with reluctance.
He asked me if I knew how to drive a stick, and I said, “Of course.” He gives me the keys and points to it out back. I thank him and climb in the truck. Only at that point did I realize it was an old fashioned ‘three on the tree’ type of shifter, which I’d never driven before.
Long story short, I figured out the gears and drove it just fine, but I can’t tell you how nerve wracking it was to use what I considered to be a museum piece for moving my furniture.