Things You'll Never Do If You Drive a Stick:

[ClutchFork]

These are not absolutes but come on and post up your thoughts two. I'll start it off with these three:

1. Drive with the parking brake on.

2. Call for a tow if your starter dies (unless you are foolish enough to have parked at the bottom of a dip where it slopes up in both directions).

3. Let a valet park your car.

[ClutchDisc]

Creep forward at a light without thinking about it.

[IMBoring25]

In some specific low-traction situations, driving with the parking brake on will give you more-effective traction.

[AHTOXA]

- let people drive my car unless I know the have basic stick driving abilities and experience. Tried to teach an ex g/f once and it didn't go over well.

- look down at my shifter to ensure it's the right position/gear (I bet you have seen auto drivers do that while reversing out of a parking spot. Do you really have to look when going from R to D in an auto??)

- start creeping forward at the light because I'm turned around in my seat calming my kids and my foot eases off the brakes.

- wonder what other positions like L and 3,2,1 are on my shifter because I never use them

- hang a grocery bag around my shifter and use it as a trash bag for my fast food wrappers

- get into a perfectly functioning unfamiliar car I need to drive and acquire a puzzled look when it doesn't start (clutch interlock)

- get road head (unless driving 3 on a tree)

[theholycow]

- hang a grocery bag around my shifter and use it as a trash bag for my fast food wrappers

I did that in the VW. Worked great. Moving the shifter in the H-pattern had no more effect on the trash bag than moving a slushbox shifter linearly.

- get road head (unless driving 3 on a tree)

What about a shifter that sprouts from the floor under the dash and comes up on an angle, along with a bench seat?

[AHTOXA]

True but I don't own a truck with a floor shifter either. So take it as things that I will never do while driving a manual.

[Rope-Pusher]

Drive with your left foot hanging out the window?

[theholycow]

True but I don't own a truck with a floor shifter either. So take it as things that I will never do while driving a manual.

Who said anything about a truck?

I do it with manual. Obviously I don't do it where there are a lot of stop signs.

[AHTOXA]

Drove with my leg out the door when I had my Wrangler doorless and topless. BTDT,

[Rope-Pusher]

Drove with my leg out the door when I had my Wrangler doorless and topless. BTDT,

Oh, so it was "Out the Doorway" maybe, but NOT "Out the door".

[ClutchFork]

Drive with your leaf arm dangling out the window--a sign of automatic transmission boredom enabled by the lack of need for two hands to drive.

[Rope-Pusher]

Drive with your leaf arm dangling out the window--a sign of automatic transmission boredom enabled by the lack of need for two hands to drive.

Fickset

[Rope-Pusher]

Eye jest hate spell Czech!

[ClutchFork]

In some specific low-traction situations, driving with the parking brake on will give you more-effective traction.

True, and true also of an automatic but only rear wheel drive so far as I know, because what this fixes is the single wheel spinning in a one-legger rear differential (open differential) and I am not sure how the front drive cars work on this.

Or do front drive cars have front wheel parking brakes? And are there one-pawed front drivers or do they all send traction to both front wheels?

[AHTOXA]

Drive with your leaf arm dangling out the window--a sign of automatic transmission boredom enabled by the lack of need for two hands to drive.

Arguable. I have a habit to hang my left arm out the window once I get into top gear and likely to stay in top gear for at least a few minutes. Although more often I'll just rest the elbow on the window sill.