Other than kids I know raised on ranches, all moronials I know cannot fix cars...or anything, drive clutches, manage money, cannot cook, do not have even the most basic level of common sense, and are shockingly ignorant of history, or other basic facts that the average 6th grader would have known 50 years ago. But they all think they are PHDs in everything with their condescending smugness
Stick shifts have to be special,ordered,in the US these days. They’re everywhere in the rest of the world.
If one takes a class to be a security contractor for some government agencies, one of the classes is how to drive a stick shift.
Hear, hear !
Exactly right !
I’ve noticed the same thing.
I can do all of those things. My husband is a mechanic by hobby, too. I’m not as savvy as he is, but I grew up watching my dad work on cars, so whatever I don’t know or can’t physically do, he helps me with. There’s always YouTube, too.
I learned how to cook in high school when I was home sick (most of junior/senior year) by watching the Food Network. My mom is okay at it, but she did a lot of cooking requiring canned foods like soup, and I prefer cooking from scratch. I make a mean Stroganoff.
Plus my middle school had home economics, which the boys also participated in, and my high school’s regular economics class did budgeting, check writing (which I already knew; you’d have to be an idiot), and investing (which I don’t have any urge to do thanks to a ridiculous market).
I live in the Chicagoland area.