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Yesterday I handed my keys over to my wife for the first time since I bought my GTO. We piled the kids into the back seat, I got into the passenger seat and away we went.
She had a ball. She seemed a little nervous and tentative at first, but then she gave 'er some gas and got into it. The boys (seven and three) thought it was great watching Mommy drive a manual, although the seven-year-old had to be a critic: "How come the car jerks so much when Mommy drives?"
In fairness, it's been ages since my wife drove a manual. It was the summer of 2000, in fact, when I came home with my '01 Corvette. But when I met her 21 years ago she was driving a manual Nissan Sentra, and her first car after we got married was a metallic black Honda CRX Si. To tell the truth, I was impressed with her shifting skills yesterday. Nary a stall or missed shift.
So that's the good news. The bad? I think she may have acquired a taste for the grunt of that six-liter engine!
She had a ball. She seemed a little nervous and tentative at first, but then she gave 'er some gas and got into it. The boys (seven and three) thought it was great watching Mommy drive a manual, although the seven-year-old had to be a critic: "How come the car jerks so much when Mommy drives?"
In fairness, it's been ages since my wife drove a manual. It was the summer of 2000, in fact, when I came home with my '01 Corvette. But when I met her 21 years ago she was driving a manual Nissan Sentra, and her first car after we got married was a metallic black Honda CRX Si. To tell the truth, I was impressed with her shifting skills yesterday. Nary a stall or missed shift.
So that's the good news. The bad? I think she may have acquired a taste for the grunt of that six-liter engine!