Stick or Automatic

[natty bumppo 297]

Automatics are the best all i ever owned.

never a stick ?

[eric&gen 0]

Nope not me no stick lol tried to learn once then never went back i am too lazy to be shifting gears all the time lol.

[natty bumppo 297]

Nope not me no stick lol tried to learn once then never went back i am too lazy to be shifting gears all the time lol.

can you at least walk and chew gum at the same time?

I can't ... but I can handle a stick ...

[eric&gen 0]

Nope not me no stick lol tried to learn once then never went back i am too lazy to be shifting gears all the time lol.

can you at least walk and chew gum at the same time?

I can't ... but I can handle a stick ...

Of course i can lol. Maybe if i buy another car down the road ill try a stick. or second car for the wife will be a sick.

[natty bumppo 297]

Nope not me no stick lol tried to learn once then never went back i am too lazy to be shifting gears all the time lol.

can you at least walk and chew gum at the same time?

I can't ... but I can handle a stick ...

Of course i can lol. Maybe if i buy another car down the road ill try a stick. or second car for the wife will be a sick.

glad you can handle that

just had another old thought ... or should I say ... lyric run through my mind. remember this?

"don't spit into the wind..."

and yes ... as a child I watched others do this

[Elphie 0]

I drive automatic b/c I don't know how to drive a shift.

[keltic 1]

just had another old thought ... or should I say ... lyric run through my mind. remember this?

"don't spit into the wind..."

YOU DON'T MESS AROUND WITH JIM

Words and music by Jim Croce

Uptown's got its hustlers

The Bowry's got its bums

Forty-second street's got Big Jim Walker

He's a pool-shootin' son of a gun

Well he's big and dumb as a man can come

But he's stronger than a country hoss

And when the bad folks all get together at night

You know they all call Big Jim "boss"

(Just because ...)

(They say ...)

CHORUS:

You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask of the old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Jim

(Ba-doo-da-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doot)

Well out of South Alabama come a country boy

He said I'm lookin' for a man named Jim

I am a pool-shootin' boy, my name is Willie McCoy

But back home they call me Slim

He said I'm lookin' for the king of forty-second street

He's drivin' a drop-top Cadillac

And last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny

But I come to get my money back

(And everybody say, Jack -- don't you know that...)

(CHORUS)

Well a hush fell over the pool room

When Jimmy come boppin' in off the street

And when the cuttin' was done, the only part that wasn't bloody

Was the soles of the big man's feet

He was cut in 'bout a hundred places

And he was shot in a couple more

And you better believe they sung a different kind of story

When Big Jim hit the floor

(And now they say)

You don't tug on Superman's cape

You don't spit into the wind

You don't pull the mask of the old Lone Ranger

And you don't mess around with Slim

Don't Mess Around With Jim

love me some jim croce

[mawilson 2,133]

Organizers Gone Wild?

[Nanusia & Lukaszek 0]

I'm so surprised that the majority love stick! I was taught on an automatic, so that's what I've always stuck with. I like being able to drive and put on makeup and eat at the same time and talk on a cell phone I don't think I could do that with a stick!

But on a side note, this weekend we got a new car for my husband. He of course wanted stick, as that's what most Polish people drive back home. He promised to teach me so I said ok fine. So this past beautiful Saturday afternoon we went for a drive. Oh lord! After 5 minutes I wanted to give up. I like to learn things quick, and if I dont I wanna give up

So I think I'm going to stick to automatic.

[sereia 0]

sticks suck in traffic...a lot.

[eric&gen 0]

I'm so surprised that the majority love stick! I was taught on an automatic, so that's what I've always stuck with. I like being able to drive and put on makeup and eat at the same time and talk on a cell phone I don't think I could do that with a stick!

But on a side note, this weekend we got a new car for my husband. He of course wanted stick, as that's what most Polish people drive back home. He promised to teach me so I said ok fine. So this past beautiful Saturday afternoon we went for a drive. Oh lord! After 5 minutes I wanted to give up. I like to learn things quick, and if I dont I wanna give up

So I think I'm going to stick to automatic.

like being able to drive and put on makeup and eat at the same time and talk on a cell phone

I am happy to say i am not driving on the same road as you lol.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I've driven both but prefer stick. I drive in city traffic almost every day so it can get a little tiresome but sticks rock. Plus, I like being able to get in any car I might need to and drive it.

[Emancipation 2]

Stick for me as well..

I love it for the way you can control the vehicle in snow/ice etc. Will never go back if I can help it!

[Ladylethal 12]

I am 100% in favor of stick. The shifting becomes a natural thing and you barely remember doing it. Automatics may seem comfortable but I feel like I'm not in charge of the car, but more like the car is taking me. I can only see the advantage of an automatic car in a traffic jam, 'cus then there's no need to keep shitfting to 1st (in a real traffic jam you don't even get to shift to 2nd) and back to neutral every 10 seconds or so.

I had never driven an automatic until I came here and started using my husband's car, and I was actually the one who taught him how to drive a stick back in Brazil, although he still has lots to train on controlling the clutch. I already told him that when we get to buy a car for me, it HAS to be a stick.

[Robor007 0]

I prefer standard. Sometimes it's a PITA in long stop-n-go traffic but otherwise standard > automatic.