Dis or Dat?
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In the first year my partner and I started going out I went over to Spain with her and we drove around in a borrowed Peugeot with some automatic/hybrid setup (I can't recall) and it utterly defeated me. I'd be ok with it for a while, and then I'd 'do something' based on decades of muscle memory and it'd lurch or stall or whatever, and I was so getting so pissed off. The looks she gave me were... not much impressed.About a year later I had the opportunity to drive her on a long journey up north in England and thankully it was a 'stickshift' as you Americans call them and I was fine and dandy. That night she confided that she'd tempered her disappointment in me all those months, thinking I was a terrible driver when in fact it turns out I'm not that bad and she was impressed.
I've since realised that all her Italian friends are absoutely atrocious drivers and I do most of the driving when we're over there.. .
- An utterly fascinating tale, Nairn.
Pray, do tell more.Nairn - lol did you use the ol "do you know how to handle a stick?" line_niko
- Weirdly i was in The Outer Hebrides on a shoot last week and we hired an automatic 4x4. I'd never driven an automatic and drove like we had kangaroo petrol....Morning_star
- ...stopping abruptly, stalling. Much piss was taken until an automatic owner tipped me the wink....one foot is the key. Keep your left foto right out of the waMorning_star
- ...way.Morning_star
- foto - footMorning_star
- yeah, I think i I worked that out quite soon, but this thing had a 'tiptronic' gearbox, which utterly confounded me.Nairn
- happens from time to time when I switch from my manual to my wife's auto, I try to depress the clutch which turns out to be the break lol_niko
- An utterly fascinating tale, Nairn.