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I learned on a manual, I've never driven an automatic. Seems kinda lazy :wink:

Got to admit, I don't see why anybody wouldn't learn in a manual. Besides simply being lazy to learn in an automatic, learning in a manual seems more practical, since then you can drive both.

Back in high school, my friends had repeated arguments about this point. It was kind of ludicrous that I actually joined in, but it was either that or feel really left out. I didn't have a cane to use to shut them up back then. :wink:
 
Got to admit, I don't see why anybody wouldn't learn in a manual. Besides simply being lazy to learn in an automatic, learning in a manual seems more practical, since then you can drive both.

Back in high school, my friends had repeated arguments about this point. It was kind of ludicrous that I actually joined in, but it was either that or feel really left out. I didn't have a cane to use to shut them up back then. :wink:

That's a really great point.

you guys are pissing me off :mad:

i was thisclose to buying a manual on the car i bought last year. but noooooo, i got talked into buying automatic :mad:

:uhoh:
 
you guys are pissing me off :mad:

i was thisclose to buying a manual on the car i bought last year. but noooooo, i got talked into buying automatic :mad:

The salesman at the place I got my car tried to talk me into buying some clapped-out old Honda with 300,000km on the clock. No sale!!
 
It may well still be showing in Halifax :hmm: Which is about a four/five hour drive.. I really really need a good reason to go to Hali since I don't particularly care for it. Personal reasons.. something I probably should, you know, get over.
 
The salesman at the place I got my car tried to talk me into buying some clapped-out old Honda with 300,000km on the clock. No sale!!
:yikes:

in my case, it wasn't the salesperson that was doing the convincing, it was my parents. apparently, me having an automatic means anyone could drive the car, if someone else's were in the shop. once i had the damn car, i was like...fuck no, no one else is driving this thing! just me.

damn guilt complex :sigh:
 
The salesman at the place I got my car tried to talk me into buying some clapped-out old Honda with 300,000km on the clock. No sale!!

Heh, this is one reason I'm glad I can't drive: buying a car seems to be one of the least enjoyable purchases you can make!

There's a very small salesyard near my tram stop. I've been waiting for the day when the owner decides he'll try to hock off a car to me as I walk past ...
 
:laugh: Yeah, you've some way to go. :wink:

Though since we're near a new thread, you may have a chance in that one!
If I can't at least draw even after last night's effort, I've got no hope when I'm relatively well rested and not hopped up on black forest cake. :lol:
 
It may well still be showing in Halifax :hmm: Which is about a four/five hour drive.. I really really need a good reason to go to Hali since I don't particularly care for it. Personal reasons.. something I probably should, you know, get over.

*thinks of a good reason*

If you don't go, Bono will cry. :sad:
 
If I can't at least draw even after last night's effort, I've got no hope when I'm relatively well rested and not hopped up on black forest cake. :lol:

Got some kahlua there? Get drunk and I'm sure you'd beat me. :wink:

Plus, I just want to see you drunkposting!
 
:yikes:

in my case, it wasn't the salesperson that was doing the convincing, it was my parents. apparently, me having an automatic means anyone could drive the car, if someone else's were in the shop. once i had the damn car, i was like...fuck no, no one else is driving this thing! just me.

damn guilt complex :sigh:

Aah... :hug: I can understand the possessiveness, though! The first long drive I did (from Canberra where I was living, to my parents place 8 hours away), my dad actually flew up to Canberra to keep me company on the way back in the car. He offered to take over driving when I got tired (which I frequently did, that was a bloody hot day, and no AC!), but I'd only had the car a month and I didn't want him to ... :reject:

My housemate can only drive automatic... she was learning manual, but had a run-in with the front fence in her boyfriend's car, and hasn't driven since. :huh:
 
We're a Toyota family, we've always had a tercel (and one corolla that had an unfortunate run-in with a deer) now we have Echos. I find Toyota makes quality cars and they seem to last.

Our old Tercel had over 500,000 kilometers on it. :giggle: We sold it, and someone fixed it up and the bugger is still going.

I loved the '86 Tercel though. The body didn't hold up great but man, if I could get one now, I'd fix it up and.. that would just be my dream car seriously.
 
oooooh! i have a toyota too! it's been good to me so far. i haven't named it yet though :hmm:
Mine has been nameless for nearly five years... I keep trying to call it JB (for jelly bean), but it just doesn't seem to stick. I think it got used to me just calling it "car" all the time...

What? Me, sad??

Got some kahlua there? Get drunk and I'm sure you'd beat me. :wink:

Plus, I just want to see you drunkposting!
I do have kahlua... but I also have a slightly unhappy stomach, so that's not going to happen.

Mmmm black forest cake

They have black forest cheesecake ice cream now :drool:
omg. :drool:
 
If you've got the cane with you, he'd have to be pretty desperate to try! :lol:

Yeah, I've always thought that would be too funny! :laugh:

But on cloudy days, I tend to not have the cane, so I'm surprised he hasn't tried yet. I guess now he recognises me and knows I have the cane or something. I lived here for a year without a cane and never got hassled, though!
 
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