Learning to drive a stick shift makes me feel like a badass.
My sister and I bought our car months ago, but we just obtained licenses a few weeks ago. Our 1998 Ford Escort was a complete steal. $500 for a car with new A/C, new tires, and a cool sun-roof. ^_^ Supposedly the radiator leaked, but it's been running for a while and we never found any evidence to back up the claim. o_O We bought if from my mom's co-worker's ex-husband. I guess he just wanted to get rid of it.
It's a stick shift though. As soon as we got it, our mom took us out and tried to teach us how to drive it, but ultimately, my sister's boyfriend taught her how to drive a stick and I kind of stopped trying to learn after I seemingly broke the car. Well, it really wasn't my fault, but I was driving home with my step dad, learning how to shift and shit along the way, when the car makes a really bad noise and it won't start up anymore. So we pushed it home and shortly after, we found out that one of the belts had shredded or something. I'd tell you which belt, but my knowledge of cars is so shallow that I couldn't remember the name of it even if my life depended on it. Our car got fixed right up though, but I didn't want to touch it after that happened, so after I got my license, I was just driving my parents' vehicles around.
Finally, a couple days ago, my sister took me to our high school parking lot where I learned everything again.
Click to viewSo that's me learning in the driver's seat, and that's my sister making fish faces and paying no attention to what I'm doing.
That was when I first sort of got in the car, but we were driving around for a while and I'm getting pretty good. So I can almost drive a stick! It's pretty damn fun too. :)