> I suppose I could rest my case on that. Think about a dire emergency. In the event that you *must* go somewhere, and the only car available has a stick shift, you need to learn to drive one. Like Grishny says, it's no trouble.
> How"...if I can learn it..."ard

...and then there was this "stupid criminal" anecdote I read recently, where a man tried to hijack a car, and got caught because it was a stick shift and he stalled about ten feet down the road...

Gri"so if you're a crook, please, DON'T learn how to drive a manual!"shny