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*facepalm*

So I just had my first go at trying to drive a stick shift. I need to learn really really well by two weeks from now, since I'm supposed to drive myself back to school (four hours!) in this car.

It went okay, but by the end there was a lovely burned-something smell coming from the engine. Oops?

How about everyone shares their horrifying first-time-driving-stick stories so I feel better, mkay?

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My older brother worked his ass off at Burger King for over a year to buy himself this extremely cool old Honda Prelude for Christmas his Senior year of high school. By the end of the next summer, he'd lost his driver's license because of too many speeding tickets. On his way out the door to college, he hands me the keys (cruel, cruel world that it is) and says, "Don't fucking wreck it."

I had never driven stick. Why my mom didn't bother to teach me, I don't know. What I do know was that I drove my girlfriend and I to school for three weeks, THREE WEEKS before I could make the five mile trip without stalling. Oy, the poor transmission on the 'Lude. *winces as I recall the gears grind*