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Dec. 28th, 2006 03:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
exsequar*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?
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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Date: 2006-12-29 04:09 am (UTC)Well, the first time I tried to drive stick was, consequently, the first time I tried driving at all. Yeah. Bad idea. I killed the engine a total of seven times (*le sigh*), and when I did get moving, I couldn't get myself out of second gear and only went a total of maybe 10 feet during the entire ordeal. Needless to say, I ended up so frustrated that I started to cry, and my dad, embarrassed (he's such a guy, I swear) and sympathetic, patted me on the back and said I gave it a good try (*rolls eyes*).
I haven't tried stick again. Perhaps I will eventually, but...not in the near future so far as I can see.