Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Like everything else discussed on this list, Marc, it's all about different strokes for different folks. You prefer manual transmissions? Good for you - keep driving a car with one as long as you can find it. Other people prefer auto transmissions - more power to them. But "learn how to drive intelligently?" Given that any drooling idiot can learn how to drive a car with a manual transmission, and given that there have been inconsiderate drivers on the road as long as there have been cars, you really might want to reconsider the need to be quite so nasty and condescending. Driving a car with a manual transmission does not in any way suggest that you are smarter than any one else, nor as a better driver. It does identify you as something, but I'm not quite sure what it is. ;-) On 6/4/05 1:38 AM, "Marc James Small" <msmall@aya.yale.edu> 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! > > NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information