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A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on DCUM, and that's saying a lot.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was a teen because that's what we had. I grew up in the suburbs and everyone learned to drive.
I went to college in NYC and for the first time met people who had never even learned to drive, due to no need for a family car and no need for a driver's license. I guess none of them were worthy of marriage to PP.

Then you can have all the wussy-boys you want, hon. You do you.

I married a real man.

There are lots of reasons to like driving manual cars that have nothing to do with sexism. What’s wrong with you?

-a guy who drives manual

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on DCUM, and that's saying a lot.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was a teen because that's what we had. I grew up in the suburbs and everyone learned to drive.
I went to college in NYC and for the first time met people who had never even learned to drive, due to no need for a family car and no need for a driver's license. I guess none of them were worthy of marriage to PP.

Then you can have all the wussy-boys you want, hon. You do you.

I married a real man.

There are lots of reasons to like driving manual cars that have nothing to do with sexism. What’s wrong with you?

-a guy who drives manual

Anonymous wrote:Just some food for thought - in 5-10 years there will basically be no stick shift, not just because of electric cars but even ICE cars, especially performance cars are doing away with them. Modern automatic shifting is now much faster than even the best race car drivers so there is really no longer any valid logical argument for the existence of manual gearboxes

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Anonymous wrote:I Drive Smart has a course for manual transmission.

Nobody is going to want to teach you on their car unless it's an old POS and not a sports car.

This. I taught my then boyfriend (now husband) on my brand new (at the time) Honda Civic. I was 24 and it was the first car I had ever bought. It was painful. I was way too nice. I’d never do that now, not on a brand new car! That said, we have a 13 yo manual transmission Honda Civic (not the same one) that we’re hanging on to because it’s a a great car that’s totally paid off, and so I can teach my DCs how to drive a manual transmission car.

A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

yeah, b/c driving stick is so much more important than other things in a potential relationship

btw driving stick =/= high quality partner/spouse

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I Drive Smart has a course for manual transmission.

Nobody is going to want to teach you on their car unless it's an old POS and not a sports car.

This. I taught my then boyfriend (now husband) on my brand new (at the time) Honda Civic. I was 24 and it was the first car I had ever bought. It was painful. I was way too nice. I’d never do that now, not on a brand new car! That said, we have a 13 yo manual transmission Honda Civic (not the same one) that we’re hanging on to because it’s a a great car that’s totally paid off, and so I can teach my DCs how to drive a manual transmission car.

A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on DCUM, and that's saying a lot.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was a teen because that's what we had. I grew up in the suburbs and everyone learned to drive.
I went to college in NYC and for the first time met people who had never even learned to drive, due to no need for a family car and no need for a driver's license. I guess none of them were worthy of marriage to PP.

Then you can have all the wussy-boys you want, hon. You do you.

I married a real man.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A guy that couldn’t drive a stick is a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t give someone like that the time of day, let alone a relationship/marriage. That’s just something that men should’ve learned in their teens.

This might be the stupidest thing I've ever read on DCUM, and that's saying a lot.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was a teen because that's what we had. I grew up in the suburbs and everyone learned to drive.
I went to college in NYC and for the first time met people who had never even learned to drive, due to no need for a family car and no need for a driver's license. I guess none of them were worthy of marriage to PP.