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Subject: [Leica] OT: Automatic Transmissions Are Deadly Boring
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri Jun 3 23:00:25 2005
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No, kindergarten...

Feli wrote:

> Am I back in high school?
> 
> 
> feli
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 3, 2005, at 10:38 PM, Marc James Small wrote:
> 
>> At 10:20 PM 6/3/05 -0700, Doug Herr wrote:
>>
>>> on 6/3/05 9:30 PM, Marc James Small at msmall@aya.yale.edu wrote:
>>>
>>>> What you are revealing is that you are an incapable driver, and you 
>>>> have
>>>> the brass to brag about it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Marc, it's time for your meds.
>>
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> I understand that one of the world-class courses in defensive driving is
>> taught at Black Point or thereabouts, near to your environs.  Instead of
>> getting nasty, why not learn how to drive intelligently?  The alternative
>> would be to promise never to curse the highways of the US again with the
>> sort of inconsiderate foolishness conducted constantly by
>> automatic-transmission drivers.
>>
>> Learn how to drive.  If you cannot do this, then, please, quite seeking
>> palliatives for an inability to link your brain to your right and left
>> feet.  Once you learn how to do it, it is, well, to make a bit of a joke,
>> "automatic".
>>
>> I  guess I have driven around 1.2 million miles over the past forty 
>> years.
>> All but a pittance of this has been in manual transmision cars, as I have
>> never and will never own a slipshift.  I don't know how to drive an
>> automatic and am baffled, constantly, on those reare occasions when I am
>> forced to operate one of those things.
>>
>> My father, born in 1915, loved automatic transmissions.  But, then, he
>> thought they were "modern".  I agree with him on his appreciation of 
>> Glenn
>> Miller.  But, then, Dad also knew how to drive a straight:  on one 
>> occasion
>> almost thirty years ago, I found myself, with some misgivings, 
>> compelled to
>> lend Dad my Triumph TR-7 to attend his 45th High School Reunion, and it
>> came back without a flaw in it.  The Old Man came through!  But that was,
>> to my knowledge, the last time he ever drove a straight, though he 
>> lived a
>> couple of decades longer.
>>
>> Face it, guy:  automatics are for old fogies,. while stick shifts are 
>> cool.
>>
>> Marc
>>
>> msmall@aya.yale.edu
>> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>>
>> NEW FAX NUMBER:  +540-343-8505
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