Apparently all of the postings I've seen on Facebook asking if people knew what a stick shift lever was aren't that far off track after all. I was reading a humor piece about two girls in Houston,TX who stole a car at gun point but couldn't make a get away as it was a stick shift. Out of curiosity I decided to see if it was true...not only was it true it wasn't an isolated incident! There are thousands of people trying to steal cars they have no idea how to drive. How did we get to this point? Most everyone from my generation knew how to drive a manual transmission,not only because they were more common then but it was also a sense of honor or maybe achievement is a better word? Fast forward into a new millennium and not only are we plagued with a generation of shiftless drivers but they aren't bright enough to know the difference! Maybe technology really is rotting the minds of the masses.
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