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Post by Emma on Feb 16, 2010 8:28:54 GMT -5
My mum got me insured as a second driver on her car, so I can finally practise outside of my lessons. She took me out today and oh my life I was so stressed! Haha. The one thing I kept forgetting is if you stop at a junction you must be in first gear to start off again...I kept attempting to go off in second and stalling that hehe. Give me your driving experiences, I need laughter! I also stalled on a zebra crossing
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Post by Turcote on Feb 16, 2010 21:49:57 GMT -5
A zebra crossing? Like, where actual zebras walk across the road?
Well, when I had my permit and was trying to learn how to drive a stick shift, I crashed the car into a tree, in a graveyard, while going about 15 miles an hour.
Needless to say, after that, my parents decided that maybe I should switch to learning an automatic instead.
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Post by Scrumtrulescent on Feb 16, 2010 22:12:29 GMT -5
OMG I almost died learning to drive a stick, but I'm glad I can. It's one of my few real-life grown up skills - most US cars are automatic. I learned on the shittiest car imaginable, and I remember my Dad being pissed at me 'cause I kept stalling when it turned out I was trying to start it in 3rd. I also once careened through an intersection thru a red-light, with a smoking engine, going like 40 in 2nd gear, making the engine overheat, 'cause I was mixing up the pedals. Good times.
On my very first driving lesson I backed up and ran over a "Doctors Only" parking sign. That's pretty indictave of my driving career as a whole. I had three different driving permits in three different states, which is ridiculous, but probably a good thing since I ended up not getting my license until I was damn near 18, like two and a half years after my first permit. I once hydroplaned off an exit ramp going 60mph and came within inches of a head-on collision with a truck that probably would have killed me, but instead did a 560 degree spin and ended up in the grassy knoll to the side, facing oncoming traffic, and had to be towed out (I was stuck in the mud). I still can't use that ramp. I remember I had a delayed reaction, where I started screaming lots of cuss words like 10 seconds after I came to complete stop.
So that was probably the most dramatic...I've also gone through at least 7 flat tires, including two at once, between 3 different cars. I'm hell on tires. Pot holes just seem to find me.
And Rachel + I on a car trip together = directional disaster. We're ALWAYS lost. Thank God Rachel has a GPS now.
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Post by Emma on Feb 17, 2010 8:10:07 GMT -5
A zebra crossing is a black and white striped crossing which if someone is standing at the edge of you must stop to let them cross. And you aren't meant to stop on them at any point Like this: lmao Liz I remember when you told me that you and Rachel were trying to find your (?) house and Rachel was like "no that definitely isn't it, it's not this road" and then it was. Yeah, I'm trying to drive a stick too. They're more common in Britain anyway but DAMN ALL OF THE GEAR CHANGES. I had to do about 5 on one road today margh effort. Plus I have to use my left hand to change gear cuz we drive on the other side of the road. I keep putting it into 3rd instead of 1st
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Post by Turcote on Feb 17, 2010 10:15:47 GMT -5
Ooooh yeah that makes a lot more sense than a place where zebras walk across. We just call those "crosswalks" here in the States.
Haha, yeah, I remember that time with me and Liz and the road that "for sure wasn't it". It was a friend's house, actually, that I had been to approximately one million times before, but for the life of me could not figure out how to get to again. Good times.
Stick shifts are the devil, I'm so mechanically retarded that I had no chance of being able to figure it out.
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Post by Scrumtrulescent on Feb 17, 2010 13:36:39 GMT -5
If I can drive a stick, trust me, ANYONE can do it. 3rd gear is always a bitch no matter the car though. Mine hates reverse, I have to throw my entire body weight into it to get it to go, and then it still takes like 3 tries.
LOL @ "Guys, this totally isn't it!" *as we drive by it for the 3rd time* "Oh wait...no it's not. I would know" hahaha
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