"ddavidn" (ddavidn)
05/22/2014 at 17:29 • Filed to: close calls
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"ddavidn" (ddavidn)
05/22/2014 at 17:29 • Filed to: close calls | 0
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Learning to drive stick may save your life if you cross the tracks in a manual.
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Takuro Spirit
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 17:33 |
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Usually I hate it when they say a car "stalled" on the tracks, but this time it appears to be correct.
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ddavidn
> Takuro Spirit
05/22/2014 at 17:34 |
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Yeah, agreed. Several parts of this story don't make sense. A girl buys a manual Infiniti... and doesn't know how to drive stick?
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 17:58 |
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Y'all gotta learn somehow, right?
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 18:00 |
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Possibly being in the process of learning to drive stick will *kill* you, and *knowing* how will save you.
Dusty Ventures
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 18:03 |
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Honestly, I'd say majority of the now-manual-drivers I know bought a manual car before they knew how to drive one.
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Dusty Ventures
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 18:05 |
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Thinking about it, operating a train on a stretch of tracks with railroad crossings must be just about the most stressful thing in the world, having to sit in constant preparedness for "that one guy (or in this case girl)"
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ddavidn
> Dusty Ventures
05/22/2014 at 18:05 |
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I definitely did. However, mine was a $500 Ford Focus that had already been hit a few times. Would not have gotten a new manual car without a beater to learn on first.
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Dusty Ventures
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 18:06 |
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Ah, I see what you're saying, though I've known a few of those as well. I have a female friend who bought herself a new V6 Mustang and learned on that.
midengineer
> ddavidn
05/22/2014 at 18:07 |
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Wowza, I'm pretty sure this was one of my fears as I was learning to drive manual.
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ddavidn
> Dusty Ventures
05/22/2014 at 18:07 |
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Definitely. How do you stay that alert doing something so boring, but have lightning-fast reflexes as soon as you see that car on the tracks around the corner. It also looks like she tried to run the crossing after the gates started to fall, probably leading to a more hurried shift and increasing the chance of error. Then... she must have hit the brakes or something...
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ddavidn
> midengineer
05/22/2014 at 18:08 |
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I'm not sure it ever crossed my mind, to be honest. But I am already careful around train tracks in general. I was way more afraid of rolling back downhill into a new Mercedes who had pulled up inches away from my bumper...
icyhot
> Dusty Ventures
05/22/2014 at 21:16 |
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I ordered my car before learning how to drive stick. Learned on my car once I picked it up.
