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by **CountD** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:02 am

I can't ice-skate.

I can't iron.

the second one really sucked until I got married!

by **nietoperz** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:03 am

toolverine wrote:Driving hilly terrain with traffic in a manual vehicle in the city is really difficult. I don't know if you guys have hills like that there, but it's a pain.

Depending on location, we have plenty of hills - and I can see how shifting from first to second constantly while stuck in a hilly traffic jam would be really annoying. I do think that people should learn on sticks, though, even if they intend to own an automatic. It's just more useful...

by **Woody** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:09 am

Dragavon wrote:I don't think we have that many sticks here.

that's a kind of chicken or the egg type situation

by **Keb** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:10 am

Black_Kryptonian wrote:I can't drive stick and I've never been hunting.

I also suck at HTML.

I've never built a webpage.

FIRED!

Just kidding. HTML is a pain in the arse.

I've never been hunting either.

by **False Prophet** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:14 am

Keb wrote:FIRED!

Just kidding. HTML is a pain in the arse.

I've never been hunting either.

I know HTML isn't all that hard, but I've never taken it upon myself to memorize the code unlike most people in my generation. I just usually look up what I need.

I tried to make a webpage once, but I immediately realized the amount of additional shit it would add to the classiness of the internet.

My mom would never let me hunt. It seems as if everyone else around my home did, but I never was all that interested. Plus the hypocrisy of some hunters has completely turned me off anyway.

by **Spidey-Man** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:18 am

nietoperz wrote:It's amazing to me how many Americans learn to drive in automatic cars. In Europe one tends to learn on a stickshift just because it's more useful. If you can drive stick you can drive automatic but the reverse isn't true.

Plus, it's more fun to drive a stick!

It is true, you are right, but there are so few sticks here, it's pretty much irrelevant. It's something like 6% or something.

I've never been in a position where I needed to drive a stick and except for my brother in law who has a car that he's obsessed with, I don't even know anyone who owns one.

by **KingPagla** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:27 am

cncoyle wrote:If you want to survive the hellalong wait at Cracker Barrell, yes, you do!

(for the record, I find Cracker Barrell = ick )

I love Cracker Barrel! It's so exotic!

by **nietoperz** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:46 am

I'm pretty clueless when it comes to HTML as well.

by **Royal Nonesuch** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:46 am

I don't know anything about cars, other than how to drive them, and even then I only know automatic. When I open the hood of my car and look in, I don't know what I'm looking at. I'll learn someday, though.

by **Keb** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:54 am

Black_Kryptonian wrote:My mom would never let me hunt. It seems as if everyone else around my home did, but I never was all that interested. Plus the hypocrisy of some hunters has completely turned me off anyway.

I just don't understand killing an animal if you're not going to eat it.

Granted, most people do eat the food they hunt, but hunting isn't a necessity in the world we live in.

Besides, I hate guns. Guns and cars.

by **MoneyMelon** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:55 am

I have no idea how to do an oil change.

Not a clue.

by **KingPagla** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:57 am

Spiderrob wrote:It is true, you are right, but there are so few sticks here, it's pretty much irrelevant. It's something like 6% or something.

I've never been in a position where I needed to drive a stick and except for my brother in law who has a car that he's obsessed with, I don't even know anyone who owns one.

When I went to Spain once, I had reserved a compact automatic. When I went to pick it up (this was in a smaller city location, not an airport) they told me they didn't have any auto compacts and asked if I would mind something bigger.
I ended up with a super-fancy Lancia Thesis luxury job for the same price as the compact.
Amazing car - Nicest I've ever driven

by **nietoperz** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:02 am

I wouldn't want to drive a compact in Spain - they all drive like lunatics there! :shock:

by **outsider** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:18 am

nietoperz wrote:I wouldn't want to drive a compact in Spain - they all drive like lunatics there!

It can't be as bad as Rome. I've been in cab rides in New York that were thrilling, but Rome is the most white-knuckled I've been in a cab. I swear the driver did a 180-turn to get to our hotel at least going 60 mph in a tight street.

by **nietoperz** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:20 am

cncoyle wrote:It can't be as bad as Rome. I've been in cab rides in New York that were thrilling, but Rome is the most white-knuckled I've been in a cab. I swear the driver did a 180-turn to get to our hotel at least going 60 mph in a tight street.

No, Italian drivers are about the worst in the world: and Rome is one of the better towns. You should see the Milanese drivers! :shock:

Spanish drivers are pretty awful, though.

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