The manual instructor
Mar. 1st, 2007 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelakLast night I went to help Mac get his car from Ernest's work to the apartment, and to help him learn to drive it. I am glad I didn't hurry over to University Place because the planning was poor for those guys. I had to wait for Jim to get out of class. I surfed and also watched a movie on Jim's nice big TV.
And then he came and we went to get the car. After we got the car I drove it to the Fred Meyer parking lot after 11PM and gave Mac some instruction and he tried out his new car.
Manual.
Jim was in the backseat. My strategy was to teach Mac so Jim would see that everyone learning on a manual isn't *snap* instantaneous learning.
I used peer pressure to get him to try it again.
:X Mean? He just had such a horrible reaction the last lesson that this was neat. And I was disappointed because he had actually done pretty well his first time around.
Anyway, so other than him complaining about the gears not having a "lighted indicator like automatics" - the session went well. With both Mac and Jim. I drove it back up the steep ass hill to their parking lot. Got Jim food and then we watched TV and then went to bed.
Nice. He didn't feel well around 3-4AM this morning. Thus waking me one way or the other. Anyways. No snow in Tacoma. Hit the snow somewhere around Kent? Luckily Highway 18 only closed directly AFTER my exit. PHEW! Slow driving and a slippery offramp, but otherwise simple enough to endure.
-Angela
And then he came and we went to get the car. After we got the car I drove it to the Fred Meyer parking lot after 11PM and gave Mac some instruction and he tried out his new car.
Manual.
Jim was in the backseat. My strategy was to teach Mac so Jim would see that everyone learning on a manual isn't *snap* instantaneous learning.
I used peer pressure to get him to try it again.
:X Mean? He just had such a horrible reaction the last lesson that this was neat. And I was disappointed because he had actually done pretty well his first time around.
Anyway, so other than him complaining about the gears not having a "lighted indicator like automatics" - the session went well. With both Mac and Jim. I drove it back up the steep ass hill to their parking lot. Got Jim food and then we watched TV and then went to bed.
Nice. He didn't feel well around 3-4AM this morning. Thus waking me one way or the other. Anyways. No snow in Tacoma. Hit the snow somewhere around Kent? Luckily Highway 18 only closed directly AFTER my exit. PHEW! Slow driving and a slippery offramp, but otherwise simple enough to endure.
-Angela
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Date: 2007-03-01 08:16 pm (UTC)Can you
Date: 2007-03-01 11:33 pm (UTC)Jim was going on about how absurd there is no indicator to which gear you're in.
I'm like. The stick IS the indicator...
-Angela
Re: Can you
Date: 2007-03-01 11:37 pm (UTC)You get a feel for it-just look and see where on the double-H the gear shift is located.
Heck, in my first car there wasn't even a tachometer to let the driver know when to shift.
Re: Can you
Date: 2007-03-02 12:59 am (UTC)And explaining a Tac to Jim and expecting him to USE it???
Wow. I am sure he'd whine about that too.
A bit of whiner about manuals, he is.
;)
Love him just the same, but jeez.
*eye roll*
-Angela
Re: Can you
Date: 2007-03-02 01:22 am (UTC)Whiners.
I don't know why I laughed at that.