[Schneed10]

I've never driven stick in my life. If you were born in the late 70s or thereafter, there was little point in ever learning. By the time you were old enough to learn to drive automatic transmissions were cheap enough and had advanced to the point where manuals were obsolete, for all practical purposes.

Learning to drive stick goes in the same category as:

- you better learn how to do math and long division because you won't have a calculator everywhere you go

- you better carry a paper copy of maps in your glove compartment

- you better keep a quarter on you at all times in case you need to use a pay phone