[Leica] OT: Automatic Transmissions Are Deadly Boring

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Am I back in high school?


feli



On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Marc James Small wrote:

> At 10:20 PM 6/3/05 -0700, Doug Herr wrote:
>> on 6/3/05 9:30 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@aya.yale.edu wrote:
>>
>>> What you are revealing is that you are an incapable driver, and you 
>>> have
>>> the brass to brag about it.
>>
>> Marc, it's time for your meds.
>
> Doug
>
> I understand that one of the world-class courses in defensive driving 
> is
> taught at Black Point or thereabouts, near to your environs.  Instead 
> of
> getting nasty, why not learn how to drive intelligently?  The 
> alternative
> would be to promise never to curse the highways of the US again with 
> the
> sort of inconsiderate foolishness conducted constantly by
> automatic-transmission drivers.
>
> Learn how to drive.  If you cannot do this, then, please, quite seeking
> palliatives for an inability to link your brain to your right and left
> feet.  Once you learn how to do it, it is, well, to make a bit of a 
> joke,
> "automatic".
>
> I  guess I have driven around 1.2 million miles over the past forty 
> years.
> All but a pittance of this has been in manual transmision cars, as I 
> have
> never and will never own a slipshift.  I don't know how to drive an
> automatic and am baffled, constantly, on those reare occasions when I 
> am
> forced to operate one of those things.
>
> My father, born in 1915, loved automatic transmissions.  But, then, he
> thought they were "modern".  I agree with him on his appreciation of 
> Glenn
> Miller.  But, then, Dad also knew how to drive a straight:  on one 
> occasion
> almost thirty years ago, I found myself, with some misgivings, 
> compelled to
> lend Dad my Triumph TR-7 to attend his 45th High School Reunion, and it
> came back without a flaw in it.  The Old Man came through!  But that 
> was,
> to my knowledge, the last time he ever drove a straight, though he 
> lived a
> couple of decades longer.
>
> Face it, guy:  automatics are for old fogies,. while stick shifts are 
> cool.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
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