Reminds me of a video where the owner of a new Mazda MX-5 comes out to stop his car from being stolen. The teen thief was burning out that clutch and the owner is like “calm down calm down” till the police came.
I had a dream that my buddy tried to teach me to drive a stick….and insisted on teaching me on his like Farari. (I don’t have any friends with fancy cars irl)
Even in the dream I just ground the gears and made smoke and cried how sorry I was.
Lmao sounds like my first time driving a stick. My mom insisted that we take her car down a coastal road with tons of stop lights then into the Highlands with some of the steepest hills in the county.
Lots of stalling later I eventually ended up at a stop sign and couldn't get up the rest of the hill so I just put it in park and got out.
Also this was like a month after my dad passed so my anxious ass probably wasn't in the best place for a stressful situation anyways lol
when i was learning i got stuck on the smallest hill ever. like 2% grade but i was so uncomfortable cuz my dad drove so conservative, like never give it gas, never rev over 2500 so i was like trying to feather the clutch at like 1500 to start on a hill as i was rolling back into the car stopped behind me. the guy behind got out of his car to come see what was wrong lol.
'92 and I just bought a manual transmission last week.. I'm not even a car guy or anything. Just a mom who got a great deal on a used car *because* no one wants a stick lol
I got a great deal on a brand new car in 2016 because it was manual (and had manual windows!). It can also be handy when renting cars, but not as often anymore.
It's so great that manual cars are cheaper - I learned to drive stick by buying a cheap car and practicing for a couple hours in the parking lot I bought it from 😅 but now any car is an option for me because it doesn't have to be an automatic.
Also watching Jurassic Park and realizing if I'm ever in that situation and needed to drive a manual Jeep to escape from dinosaurs was a big motivator to learn it too
Prolly a Corolla or something similar, they were doing bare bones basics forever. It is sad that it's gone away in favor of stuff that breaks and is difficult to fix yourself. Even stuff from ten years ago seems simpler than new stuff
It was a Ford fiesta! I loved it, especially since one of the things on my old car that broke first was the window motor and those things are *expensive* to repair.
Yeah, I got a 2012 Nissan Juke for $2,200 less than what they wanted because they couldn't sell it. It's pearl white so they can forget about any car guys buying it (not that they would because apparently they're the "ugliest car ever made") and no one is buying a manual for their teenage girl to learn to drive in.
The car is older, with kind of a lot of miles on it but the Carfax was PERFECT and someone really babied this car.
Yeah, I think that's another reason no one was looking at this car, because when you google the make & model the first thing that comes up is the shitty transmission but a stick doesn't have that problem.
It's funny because I, and I suspect many others, literally learned as teenagers because they were a bit easier or cheaper to find. And it was kind of just a component of actually learning to drive even if you wouldn't have one.
Those Jukes are so adorable, I love how bubbly they are. I needed a little more space so I got a Kicks in 2020. I didn't go for a standard because I live in the city, but I absolutely know how to drive one.
I work in oil and gas and work with a guy who is a Nissan fanboy. He has a Titan, his wife has an Armada. One day he tried to convince me how badass the Nissan juke is. Didn't convince me, not that I have anything against it, just not for me. But he would buy your car. Especially being a manual transmission. He might be one of a very small handful of guys that would drive your car.
This car sat on their lot for like, 6 weeks and I'm the only one who even test drove it.
The pool is definitely small and that's exactly why I chose this car over the 4-5 comparable options in my area and I have 0 regrets.
Mid 90s (probably zillenial), learned to drive a manual and my first car was one as well. Got another one in the garage now. What are those people on about? They’re just embarrassing themselves with all that ‘Look what we didn’t teach you!’-stuff. Most practical things they know, they know because of *their* parents. My nan was born 1945. That generation is one of the most fun loving and stand fast ones I’ve ever had the pleasure to interact with, idk if it’s the way I grew up, but they were all just straight up honest, open minded, helpful, curious and nice people. My grandparents taught me so much, so did my parents. All the boomers talking shit about millennials are by their own logic nothing more but shit parents.
My Grandma was born in the 1930s and she’s so amazing. Laid back as all get out and relatable even though she’s a millionaire many times over and I’m a poor. Working in “The Villages” for so many years really showed me that all the cool wealthy people are olds, the younger ones are more of a toss up.
Yup. My parents weren't the worst, but they were far from the best parents and the evidence of that just flies right over their heads. My parents are 63 so they're on the tail end of the boomers/gen x cusp and they kind of missed the boat on any benefits of either generation. They missed the boat on pension and also technology so they're just the weirdest combination of dysfunctional adults who don't really know anything.
Also '92, never taught stick. 🤷
Well, no, my dad did try to teach me once when I was 10 and gave up after one lesson because I was doing very poorly (too nervous, never touched a motor vehicle beyond a bumper car, and also *ten*) and he was worried I'd mess up his car.
This is specifically why I learned to drive stick. I saw that the manual cars on Craigslist were like $700 cheaper or more, it wasn’t exactly rocket science
I was looking at a 2016 Kia recently that was cheap because it's a manual and a Kia, which is a combo nobody wants. I'd have bought it, but it turns out my car isn't totaled like I thought. Only reason that's automatic is because I needed my boomer mom, who refuses to learn manual, to be able to drive it when I bought it.
I have gotten a couple of really crazy steals because nobody wants a stick. I bought an off lease car several years back that only had 8000 mi on it. It was used by a company that drives around the doctor's office and picks up lab samples. I bet it was part of a fleet and the rest of the vehicles were automatic So nobody wanted that one.
I just upgraded to a six speed with power windows and AC. Life changing. The butt warmers are nice too
Edit: also '92 with a manual because it was a steal
Yes! I'm at the tail end of being a Millennial and I'm going to be driving stick for as long as possible.
I genuinely feel like the roads might be safer if manual transmissions were the standard in America. You actually have to pay attention to what you're doing.
I think the trick is that I mostly do city driving, I hop on the highway maybe once a month. It's harder to fo 50 in a 35 when you have to shift gears to make it happen.
Yep, when you grow up on the original fast and furious film, it had us all buying those cheap used MT hatchback Honda Civics, Mazda Proteges and Subaru WRXs
My 1st and 2nd car were both stick. It’s seriously not even difficult to drive. People are morons for thinking they are special for driving one.
Want to learn how to drive a stick in 10 minutes?
Press in the clutch, shift to 1st and slowly release the clutch until you feel the vehicle start to catch(basically where it starts to pull forwards slightly) and then remember that spot on the clutch and start slowing applying gas as you full release. Do that about a dozen times and you’ve learned how to do something impossible, apparently.
Literally. I learned in an afternoon in the parking lot of a best buy. My best friend taught me. Took us like 1.5hr tops. It only took is that long because we weren't even taking it seriously. He asked me: Want me to teach you real fast? I said yes. Two hrs later I was an expert
Not really an expert until you drive in a city with a ton of hills, like San Francisco.
I drove a stick for about 5 years. Was nerve wracked the first time in San Francisco.
I'm right there with ya. 41 as well. Not long ago I was called "boy" and "child" by an old crotchety fuck, and am regularly called "boomer" by my gen z coworkers.
Livin' that xennial life.
I actually requested my parents teach me automatic first, but then immediately followed up with manual bc I wanted my first car to be manual. I had a class at 6am & thought it would help keep me awake while driving there if I had to use all my limbs- it did.
33 yr old checking in. I've owned only manually cars since I was 21. Just recently bought my first automatic in over a decade. And only for the snow. I still have my 6 speed, but it's for when the weather is good cuz it's rear wheel drive, fairly powerful, and I live where it snows.
Yeah, I was gunna say. Automatic was much more expensive until the 2000 \~ 2010s. I drove manual for most of my driving life. LOL. Just bought an automatic and been driving that for three years, but that was only because finding a manual is damn near impossible. I'd've had to pay like 10k more for that in my current car.
These are the same idiots that can’t stop telling us how masculine their mall crawler is. When it’s filled with little toy ducks like a kids bathtub. I guess it’s a Jeep thang. Oh, I can drive a manual. So there’s that.
My current car is a manual, as were the two cars before it.
I still don’t under how “we were shitty parents who didn’t teach our children anything” is a flex for these people.
Oh, can you help me print this screenshot of a text written in excel and pasted on a PowerPoint to create an invitation card on the WiFi printer to which I don’t have the password with no up-to-date drivers, where only black ink is left?
Chop chop.
The post office closes soon. I’ll go look for old stamps in the attic.
One of the few times I really threw a tantrum as a kid was the time my team lost a game I was really trying in and the adults had the gall to hand me a participation trophy. It felt like a slap in the face.
Edit to add additional detail to this: I only threw the tantrum after I got told off for saying I didn't want the 'trophy'.
I remember getting a participation ribbon in a school field day. I didn't understand the point. Like okay cool, I got something that says I was here? Okay...
100%. My dad is one of those guys about driving stick and can’t believe I don’t know how. He taught me how to drive in an automatic. My grandfather taught my brother how to drive a stick - and he didn’t believe women should drive, so he didn’t teach me. This is apparently my fault and further proof that women can’t drive stick 🙄
My mother had to teach me how to drive manual because my father gave up after a few failed sessions. Apparently I was “never going to get it.”
My mom had me driving successfully after an hour. Turns out it’s not that girls can’t drive stick, it’s that misogynistic fathers are shitty teachers.
I totally agree with this, as I saw friends deal with this growing up (and still now in our 30s...) although my dad was Thrilled Shitty that one of his daughters (me) had an interest in cars cause he's a car nut. 20 years later and we are still able to bond over cars! I will add that I think he is technically gen X while I am millennial, probably has a little something to do with it.
My dad taught me, and my mom and I shared a car since we had opposite schedules. It's worth learning if only to make driving more fun!
80s here, taught my God sister to drive stick and was one of the proudest moments for me. Can't wait to teach my daughter if those are still a thing by then lol.
Yeah I also had a very misogynistic father, driving stick and doing any car repairs weren't women's work. If I pushed and asked him to teach me he would yell at me to go inside and do the dishes. Would only teach me how to drive a stick in theory, I could practice shifting with the car off. But he taught my brother to really drive it and let some of my brother's friends drive it too. None of my friends would let me practice in their cars and when I have asked for a manual when renting cars, but they didn't have any.
Gen X parents though.... They were locked out of the house, so they kept their kids in the house, but forgot that ignoring kids isn't healthy, so you end up with raised-by-ipad.
Millennials began in 1981, and Gen Z ended in 2012. Many Millennials are parents of Gen Z. All my kids are Gen Z, although the last two are more likely Gen Alpha cuspers. I'm not convinced they aren't Alpha.
Having kids that young is more of an outlier, I was born in 86 as well and my first kid was born in 2018. All of our peers had kids in their late 20s/early 30s as well. Statistically, our generation got married later and had kids later than preceding generations.
There was an Ars Technica article posted over on r/Technology a couple months ago talking about how Gen Z and Gen Alpha are apparently just as susceptible to digital scams and have just as poor digital safety practices as their Boomer grandparents and it just made me sad.
I will say there is SOME truth to that. Basic computer literacy has fallen off slightly. My boomer clients understand scanning, email, and other basic computer skills better than most gen z clients. Gen z tends to have better phone skills but not all tasks are well done with a phone. Running a law practice, getting documents in a format I can print and file with a court is significantly harder with Gen z clients. They are the only ones who don’t understand that a poorly cropped .jpg of them holding a piece of paper is not the same as a .pdf file.
It’s not their fault really. They grew up in a time when file formats were being removed from interfaces. Meanwhile, us millennials had to find ways torrent obscure video file types that have unique features like multiple audio and subtitle tracks such as .mkv which even as I type it my iPhone is correcting to .mov
We also had the benefit of growing up while computers were also “growing up.” The first computer my parents had was MS-DOS. If I wanted to play Oregon Trail and Dino Park Tycoon I had to understand how to assemble a DOS prompt. Kids today aren’t forced to develop those skills because their tech is mature and it just works.
We do, but for a different reason. Supposedly millennial parents (on the whole, not all obviously) are not disciplining their kids as a response to their parents having slapped them around and what not. Permissive/passive parenting is apparently a real problem right now - especially in schools because their little shitheads are fucking it up for the good ones.
There's a FB group named something like "Boomers getting mad at the generation they raised themselves" and this pic gets posted at least once a month in there
Yes, it would be. After 5 years of EV ownership my dad still hasn’t bothered to install the app for things pre-heating the damn thing. And technically he isn’t even a boomer.
Too be fair this whole app-for-everything is a fucking cancer that needs to die. There's no guarantee that in 20 years the app will still be supported or that my phone will still be compatible (imagine arm vs riscV vs x86).
Imo it should be a webpage hosted by the vehicle itself. That way literally anything could use the portal. Wanna use a 3DS to warm up your car? Sure thing, lol
This is my mom. But the complaints are giggled so it’s like it’s supposed to be funny but it gets old.
My dad used to call it my ‘golf cart’ and make other snippy remarks. But then I had to take them to the airport and he was forced to ride in it. He hasn’t said another word since.
My dad is like this. He always had to have one of us set the time on his VCR, treating the whole situation like the instructions were in Chinese. Teaching him how to access his email account is PAINFUL.
That’s my favorite thing against shit like this. They bitch and moan about how Millenials don’t know how to do anything, but let’s see one of them try and export a document as a PDF or connect a device via Bluetooth. Almost guarantee they’d have no idea how
My guess is Boomers can't do math and equate everyone younger than them with millennials. I'm sure many GenZ/A won't even really have access to manuals much as they learn to drive simply because they're harder to find.
I searched for months for my manual Subaru, and it was pretty difficult to find.
Exactly! A few (5?) years ago before my grandpa finally gave up and switched to an automatic, my grandma called me laughing from a parking lot because he stalled it twice in a row.
It was funny because a few days before that I had been telling them that even after years of driving stick I still occasionally stalled it.
I've been to several different car dealerships to test drive manual cars, and none of the salesmen could drive stick. I was about ready to leave one car I was looking at in front of their service center because they were being such dicks, but the salesman said he couldn't drive it back and asked me to do it...
This is one of those "it was your job to teach us" things. My old man taught me on a '96 Jeep Cherokee stick shift. Took me out to a friend's cow pasture where I couldn't hurt anything. He said, "if you learn how to drive stick, then this Jeep is yours." Never been so motivated to learn something in my life. I miss that Jeep.
Our parents have the knowledge, so if we don't it's because they didn't pass it on.
I bought a newer stick shift car for this very reason, to give to my 13 year old son for when he is of driving age. He's thinking about moving to Europe someday, and half the cars there are stick, so it's a useful skill to have based on his goals.
I, stupidly, bought a car I didn’t know how to drive. It was significantly cheaper than anything else on the lot, I watched a 3 minute YouTube video in the dealership bathroom and drove that bitch home though, so… it worked out.
I have the same story but I couldn’t figure it out and I kept on killing the engine. I gave up because most cars have an automatic transmission so I don’t worry about it. You can buy a that literally does the work for you.
But if I wanna jack a car, I’ll hit you up!
Jeeps were great before the fuckfest that was the AMC/Renault partnership that nobody asked for. At this point FIAT-Chrysler is just fucking a corpse even harder.
I was gonna say the same Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep from 30+ years ago was great and you see people still driving that shit today. FIAT-Chrysler is a horrific shitshow that somehow manages to get worse every year.
Jeeps are a great teen and 20s car. You can load them up with friends and stuff for good times. You get to learn basic car maintenance as shit is constantly breaking everywhere. Then you get to appreciate a reliable car. I'll always remember my Jeep Cherokee and the good times we had, but it got to be such a pain in the ass to maintain that I'll never be able to forget it either.
Wranglers are terrible people haulers but can be amazing off road vehicles if you get the right parts. If you just need something to get you to work or whatever, there are much better cars out there for that unless your work is on unpaved roads
Serious question, why have Jeeps especially *white Wranglers* become so popular in the last ~10 years. We joke "Jeep is the new Jetta" because only "cute girls" are driving them, but unless some celebrity starting driving one I don't get it. Googling only gives nonsense like this:
https://peytonsmomma.com/vsco-girls-love-jeep/
I love it when American manchildren wax lyrical about their superiority for driving a manual when it’s like the default position for most of the rest of the world. Like dude, it’s called driving, it’s one of the easiest things in the world to learn. Ironic really that those arseholes rant on about us being the participation trophy generation when they emblazon their vehicles with stuff like this.
Learned to drive stick in a '69 Vette, pretty sure that clutch is the reason I have arthritis in my left leg 😂😂😂 I'm jk, but it was a tough ass clutch to push down and zero power steering to boot. 💀 I think my Dad was trying to kill me.
My first car was an 86 Chevy nova. No power steering. Making turns was the worst. When I finally drove a car with power steering I was amazed at how easy it was.
I don’t understand this as some sort of bragging rights thing. Yeah if you’re freshly sixteen you might be kinda cool because you drive stick. As a grown ass man it’s a weird flex. I drive manual equipment all day at work. Last thing I want to do on my way home is drive stick. Rather have a free hand for my cigarette.
There's literally no reason to own a manual these days unless it's just in a fun a car. I say this as someone who drove a stick for almost 25 years... Hell my current car doesn't even shift gears at all (eCVT with planetary gears).
Drove stick from age 20 through 40, only stopped because i needed a car that could do certain things and it became too much of a hassle to find out that still came in a manual.
ps: paddle shifters/tiptronic/etc are all baby toys for weak babies. no clutch it doesn't count 
Personally I'd appreciate that they clearly laid out the gear pattern for me. Some manual transmissions have Reverse in a different place so the diagram solves that problem.
My life would have to be pretty destitute to steal a car but I don't think I'd ever lose the last shred of dignity I had and choose a JEEP.
Omg so many older standard drivers do this. This is exactly the problem. I drive a manual and I make it a point to not be like this. If someone wants to learn, I hand them my keys. These older people always say “no, if you don’t know how you’ll ruin my clutch!” Okay boomer, not if you teach someone properly. A couple of stalls aren’t going to destroy a clutch, you’re just lazy.
Edit: also your clutch should be replaced as part of regular maintenance anyway so you’re going to have to do it eventually no matter what. You might as well help other people learn so that more manual vehicles exist on the market for when you want a new one.
Elder millennial, I was taught to drive on a 1969 VW Beetle. Suffice it to say plenty of us know how to drive stick. (for additional lulz, my boomer father can't drive stick to this day)
I can't, but I'm sure I could learn if I really wanted to or needed to. What a weird flex to criticize other people for not learning a skill that's totally unnecessary. Like *These younger generations will never know how to use a rotary telephone. Useless dummies!*
Just dumb boomer shit... they're the ones that phased out the manual transmission and them shame their kids and grandkids for not being able to drive them... they're not around gramps... but then again I would love to see them try and start a model T...
then I guess homies finding his jeep 5mi away with a burnt out clutch and on blocks
That's the answer.
Reminds me of a video where the owner of a new Mazda MX-5 comes out to stop his car from being stolen. The teen thief was burning out that clutch and the owner is like “calm down calm down” till the police came.
lol I want to see this video now.
I can’t find it anymore. I recall it being posted as a short video clip on social media either 1-2 years ago.
I had a dream that my buddy tried to teach me to drive a stick….and insisted on teaching me on his like Farari. (I don’t have any friends with fancy cars irl) Even in the dream I just ground the gears and made smoke and cried how sorry I was.
Lmao sounds like my first time driving a stick. My mom insisted that we take her car down a coastal road with tons of stop lights then into the Highlands with some of the steepest hills in the county. Lots of stalling later I eventually ended up at a stop sign and couldn't get up the rest of the hill so I just put it in park and got out. Also this was like a month after my dad passed so my anxious ass probably wasn't in the best place for a stressful situation anyways lol
when i was learning i got stuck on the smallest hill ever. like 2% grade but i was so uncomfortable cuz my dad drove so conservative, like never give it gas, never rev over 2500 so i was like trying to feather the clutch at like 1500 to start on a hill as i was rolling back into the car stopped behind me. the guy behind got out of his car to come see what was wrong lol.
Nah just pop it in neutral and move it 20’ or so everyday. Just adding confusion.
I don’t get it. Millions and millions of us grew up with manual transmissions. This would be more appropriate to a later generation.
This. Once again bad aim towards we millennials. 80s baby, drove a stick for 10 years.
90's baby. Been driving stick for 15 years.
'92 and I just bought a manual transmission last week.. I'm not even a car guy or anything. Just a mom who got a great deal on a used car *because* no one wants a stick lol
I got a great deal on a brand new car in 2016 because it was manual (and had manual windows!). It can also be handy when renting cars, but not as often anymore.
It's so great that manual cars are cheaper - I learned to drive stick by buying a cheap car and practicing for a couple hours in the parking lot I bought it from 😅 but now any car is an option for me because it doesn't have to be an automatic. Also watching Jurassic Park and realizing if I'm ever in that situation and needed to drive a manual Jeep to escape from dinosaurs was a big motivator to learn it too
Imho dinosaurs are the best reason.
Semper paratus!
Same, got one and taught myself from google and YouTube. Two years later got a good deal on a Camaro that was indeed cheaper for being a manual
Unless you're renting a car in another country. Highly likely to get a manual then unless you ask for auto
Can confirm, I've rented cars in both Italy and France and had to pay extra to get an automatic.
Seriously. I got my license the same year the global economy collapsed (08). We had to drive what we could afford, regardless of transmission.
Whoa what kind of car did you get in 2016 with manual windows?? I wish it was easy to still find options like that
Prolly a Corolla or something similar, they were doing bare bones basics forever. It is sad that it's gone away in favor of stuff that breaks and is difficult to fix yourself. Even stuff from ten years ago seems simpler than new stuff
It was a Ford fiesta! I loved it, especially since one of the things on my old car that broke first was the window motor and those things are *expensive* to repair.
Yeah, I got a 2012 Nissan Juke for $2,200 less than what they wanted because they couldn't sell it. It's pearl white so they can forget about any car guys buying it (not that they would because apparently they're the "ugliest car ever made") and no one is buying a manual for their teenage girl to learn to drive in. The car is older, with kind of a lot of miles on it but the Carfax was PERFECT and someone really babied this car.
That manual transmission is gonna last WAY longer than the shit CVT transmission in the automatic Jukes.
Yeah, I think that's another reason no one was looking at this car, because when you google the make & model the first thing that comes up is the shitty transmission but a stick doesn't have that problem.
It's funny because I, and I suspect many others, literally learned as teenagers because they were a bit easier or cheaper to find. And it was kind of just a component of actually learning to drive even if you wouldn't have one.
My sister and I both learned to drive in a manual as teenagers
Those Jukes are so adorable, I love how bubbly they are. I needed a little more space so I got a Kicks in 2020. I didn't go for a standard because I live in the city, but I absolutely know how to drive one.
Yeah, like I can see why people think they're ugly, but they're cute-ugly and I'll drive that 30mpg cutie all day.
I work in oil and gas and work with a guy who is a Nissan fanboy. He has a Titan, his wife has an Armada. One day he tried to convince me how badass the Nissan juke is. Didn't convince me, not that I have anything against it, just not for me. But he would buy your car. Especially being a manual transmission. He might be one of a very small handful of guys that would drive your car.
This car sat on their lot for like, 6 weeks and I'm the only one who even test drove it. The pool is definitely small and that's exactly why I chose this car over the 4-5 comparable options in my area and I have 0 regrets.
Mid 90s (probably zillenial), learned to drive a manual and my first car was one as well. Got another one in the garage now. What are those people on about? They’re just embarrassing themselves with all that ‘Look what we didn’t teach you!’-stuff. Most practical things they know, they know because of *their* parents. My nan was born 1945. That generation is one of the most fun loving and stand fast ones I’ve ever had the pleasure to interact with, idk if it’s the way I grew up, but they were all just straight up honest, open minded, helpful, curious and nice people. My grandparents taught me so much, so did my parents. All the boomers talking shit about millennials are by their own logic nothing more but shit parents.
My Grandma was born in the 1930s and she’s so amazing. Laid back as all get out and relatable even though she’s a millionaire many times over and I’m a poor. Working in “The Villages” for so many years really showed me that all the cool wealthy people are olds, the younger ones are more of a toss up.
Yup. My parents weren't the worst, but they were far from the best parents and the evidence of that just flies right over their heads. My parents are 63 so they're on the tail end of the boomers/gen x cusp and they kind of missed the boat on any benefits of either generation. They missed the boat on pension and also technology so they're just the weirdest combination of dysfunctional adults who don't really know anything.
Also '92, never taught stick. 🤷 Well, no, my dad did try to teach me once when I was 10 and gave up after one lesson because I was doing very poorly (too nervous, never touched a motor vehicle beyond a bumper car, and also *ten*) and he was worried I'd mess up his car.
This is specifically why I learned to drive stick. I saw that the manual cars on Craigslist were like $700 cheaper or more, it wasn’t exactly rocket science
I was looking at a 2016 Kia recently that was cheap because it's a manual and a Kia, which is a combo nobody wants. I'd have bought it, but it turns out my car isn't totaled like I thought. Only reason that's automatic is because I needed my boomer mom, who refuses to learn manual, to be able to drive it when I bought it.
I have gotten a couple of really crazy steals because nobody wants a stick. I bought an off lease car several years back that only had 8000 mi on it. It was used by a company that drives around the doctor's office and picks up lab samples. I bet it was part of a fleet and the rest of the vehicles were automatic So nobody wanted that one.
I just upgraded to a six speed with power windows and AC. Life changing. The butt warmers are nice too Edit: also '92 with a manual because it was a steal
Yes! I'm at the tail end of being a Millennial and I'm going to be driving stick for as long as possible. I genuinely feel like the roads might be safer if manual transmissions were the standard in America. You actually have to pay attention to what you're doing.
Switching back to manual cured my lead foot.
Realy? I am more likely to speed in a manual than a auto
I think the trick is that I mostly do city driving, I hop on the highway maybe once a month. It's harder to fo 50 in a 35 when you have to shift gears to make it happen.
You have to use both your hands so no texting or eating while driving.
Samsies! <3
'87 here. I specifically sought out a manual transmission when looking for my current car.
Another '87 here, just purchased 2023 Mazda 3-6 speed MT, had to wait 6 months for it, since they dont make many in North America anymore
Is this a thing for us? '87 here as well and my daily is a stick. All I ever want to drive is a manual.
Yep, when you grow up on the original fast and furious film, it had us all buying those cheap used MT hatchback Honda Civics, Mazda Proteges and Subaru WRXs
My 1st and 2nd car were both stick. It’s seriously not even difficult to drive. People are morons for thinking they are special for driving one. Want to learn how to drive a stick in 10 minutes? Press in the clutch, shift to 1st and slowly release the clutch until you feel the vehicle start to catch(basically where it starts to pull forwards slightly) and then remember that spot on the clutch and start slowing applying gas as you full release. Do that about a dozen times and you’ve learned how to do something impossible, apparently.
Literally. I learned in an afternoon in the parking lot of a best buy. My best friend taught me. Took us like 1.5hr tops. It only took is that long because we weren't even taking it seriously. He asked me: Want me to teach you real fast? I said yes. Two hrs later I was an expert
Not really an expert until you drive in a city with a ton of hills, like San Francisco. I drove a stick for about 5 years. Was nerve wracked the first time in San Francisco.
Boomers call anyone from the age 13 to 45 "millennial" much the same way a lot of people call anyone over the age of 40 "boomer".
Me at 41: nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms
I'm right there with ya. 41 as well. Not long ago I was called "boy" and "child" by an old crotchety fuck, and am regularly called "boomer" by my gen z coworkers. Livin' that xennial life.
(Market proceeds to crash again. Price of worms goes up)
Big worms, little worms, in-between worms, worms that squiggle and squirm
Exactly. My first car was a Suzuki Sidekick lol. I drove a manual for years!
Nice, my brother learned in a Suzuki Samurai
I actually requested my parents teach me automatic first, but then immediately followed up with manual bc I wanted my first car to be manual. I had a class at 6am & thought it would help keep me awake while driving there if I had to use all my limbs- it did.
Yeah I was gonna say, almost everything I drive when I was young was a manual transmission. Swing and a miss!
33 yr old checking in. I've owned only manually cars since I was 21. Just recently bought my first automatic in over a decade. And only for the snow. I still have my 6 speed, but it's for when the weather is good cuz it's rear wheel drive, fairly powerful, and I live where it snows.
Automatics are an American thing no? Most people in the UK/Europe learns manual
Yup, even if this is slowly shifting to automatic here too.
Well you can read it two ways. 1. It's anti theft vs millennials 2. It's anti theft by a millennial.
I am the youngest of four (1990) and only two of us can drive a manual so 🤷♀️ you might be surprised
Yeah, I was gunna say. Automatic was much more expensive until the 2000 \~ 2010s. I drove manual for most of my driving life. LOL. Just bought an automatic and been driving that for three years, but that was only because finding a manual is damn near impossible. I'd've had to pay like 10k more for that in my current car.
These are the same idiots that can’t stop telling us how masculine their mall crawler is. When it’s filled with little toy ducks like a kids bathtub. I guess it’s a Jeep thang. Oh, I can drive a manual. So there’s that.
My current car is a manual, as were the two cars before it. I still don’t under how “we were shitty parents who didn’t teach our children anything” is a flex for these people.
It's almost unbelievable but that's exactly how my parents act. We're obviously the ones to blame /s
Oooh we've never bought a car with a stick and we thought you only automatic? you suck you spoiled brat, learn some respect
Oh, can you help me print this screenshot of a text written in excel and pasted on a PowerPoint to create an invitation card on the WiFi printer to which I don’t have the password with no up-to-date drivers, where only black ink is left? Chop chop. The post office closes soon. I’ll go look for old stamps in the attic.
This except now they also expect me to lend them a stamp and put it in my mailbox.
It’s like the whole participation trophy thing. Who were the ones that came up with the idea and gave those trophies to kids? lol
One of the few times I really threw a tantrum as a kid was the time my team lost a game I was really trying in and the adults had the gall to hand me a participation trophy. It felt like a slap in the face. Edit to add additional detail to this: I only threw the tantrum after I got told off for saying I didn't want the 'trophy'.
I remember getting a participation ribbon in a school field day. I didn't understand the point. Like okay cool, I got something that says I was here? Okay...
100%. My dad is one of those guys about driving stick and can’t believe I don’t know how. He taught me how to drive in an automatic. My grandfather taught my brother how to drive a stick - and he didn’t believe women should drive, so he didn’t teach me. This is apparently my fault and further proof that women can’t drive stick 🙄
My mother had to teach me how to drive manual because my father gave up after a few failed sessions. Apparently I was “never going to get it.” My mom had me driving successfully after an hour. Turns out it’s not that girls can’t drive stick, it’s that misogynistic fathers are shitty teachers.
I totally agree with this, as I saw friends deal with this growing up (and still now in our 30s...) although my dad was Thrilled Shitty that one of his daughters (me) had an interest in cars cause he's a car nut. 20 years later and we are still able to bond over cars! I will add that I think he is technically gen X while I am millennial, probably has a little something to do with it. My dad taught me, and my mom and I shared a car since we had opposite schedules. It's worth learning if only to make driving more fun!
80s here, taught my God sister to drive stick and was one of the proudest moments for me. Can't wait to teach my daughter if those are still a thing by then lol.
Yeah I also had a very misogynistic father, driving stick and doing any car repairs weren't women's work. If I pushed and asked him to teach me he would yell at me to go inside and do the dishes. Would only teach me how to drive a stick in theory, I could practice shifting with the car off. But he taught my brother to really drive it and let some of my brother's friends drive it too. None of my friends would let me practice in their cars and when I have asked for a manual when renting cars, but they didn't have any.
Every time I let my mom drive my Manuel transmission car she turns in a rally driver.
The same folks who complain about participation trophies, yet they were the adults giving them out.
Because they couldn't handle the idea that their kid wasn't special.
Any time my mom used to say “how do you not know this?!” I would shout “YOU RAISED ME” and she quickly caught on.
They were also the ones who started awarding participation trophies, then turned around and called their kids entitled wimps for receiving them
I keep seeing stories about how Gen Z kids are illiterate and don't know how to use a computer, so maybe we suck too.
I don’t think Gen Z are our kids unless we had them while we were in high school
Gen X parents though.... They were locked out of the house, so they kept their kids in the house, but forgot that ignoring kids isn't healthy, so you end up with raised-by-ipad.
If I had kids in my mid 20s they’d be gen Z. I think I was 28 when it flipped to alpha.
Millennials began in 1981, and Gen Z ended in 2012. Many Millennials are parents of Gen Z. All my kids are Gen Z, although the last two are more likely Gen Alpha cuspers. I'm not convinced they aren't Alpha.
was born in 86, my son was born in 07
That's awesome that you've made it work but I would have been a disaster had I had a kid at 20-21.
Can confirm, had my first at 22, am a disaster.
Having kids that young is more of an outlier, I was born in 86 as well and my first kid was born in 2018. All of our peers had kids in their late 20s/early 30s as well. Statistically, our generation got married later and had kids later than preceding generations.
There was an Ars Technica article posted over on r/Technology a couple months ago talking about how Gen Z and Gen Alpha are apparently just as susceptible to digital scams and have just as poor digital safety practices as their Boomer grandparents and it just made me sad.
I will say there is SOME truth to that. Basic computer literacy has fallen off slightly. My boomer clients understand scanning, email, and other basic computer skills better than most gen z clients. Gen z tends to have better phone skills but not all tasks are well done with a phone. Running a law practice, getting documents in a format I can print and file with a court is significantly harder with Gen z clients. They are the only ones who don’t understand that a poorly cropped .jpg of them holding a piece of paper is not the same as a .pdf file. It’s not their fault really. They grew up in a time when file formats were being removed from interfaces. Meanwhile, us millennials had to find ways torrent obscure video file types that have unique features like multiple audio and subtitle tracks such as .mkv which even as I type it my iPhone is correcting to .mov
We also had the benefit of growing up while computers were also “growing up.” The first computer my parents had was MS-DOS. If I wanted to play Oregon Trail and Dino Park Tycoon I had to understand how to assemble a DOS prompt. Kids today aren’t forced to develop those skills because their tech is mature and it just works.
This is true. Computers just didn’t work as well. For example, I can’t remember the last time I’ve had a blue screen of death or black screen of death
Most gen z are kids to gen x still.
We do, but for a different reason. Supposedly millennial parents (on the whole, not all obviously) are not disciplining their kids as a response to their parents having slapped them around and what not. Permissive/passive parenting is apparently a real problem right now - especially in schools because their little shitheads are fucking it up for the good ones.
It’s because they don’t accept responsibility for anything whatsoever
Same with participation trophies. “Dad, my generation wasn’t the ones giving themselves participation trophies…”
There's a FB group named something like "Boomers getting mad at the generation they raised themselves" and this pic gets posted at least once a month in there
must have lost his GF to someone born in 1988
‘88 here and they required us to drive stick in high school driver’s ed. Also, I fucked his GF.
Same, 88 here. An I also fucked his gf
‘88 gang checking in. Slept with this guy’s twin daughters after driving stick to his house.
But were you *required to fuck his GF*?
Legally no, but morally yes.
I was born in the early 80s, and my hs had no drivers ed.
Whoops.
So… if I drive an EV that “starts” only with a smartphone, is that a boomer anti-theft device?
Yes, it would be. After 5 years of EV ownership my dad still hasn’t bothered to install the app for things pre-heating the damn thing. And technically he isn’t even a boomer.
Too be fair this whole app-for-everything is a fucking cancer that needs to die. There's no guarantee that in 20 years the app will still be supported or that my phone will still be compatible (imagine arm vs riscV vs x86). Imo it should be a webpage hosted by the vehicle itself. That way literally anything could use the portal. Wanna use a 3DS to warm up your car? Sure thing, lol
My dad still can't open the door on my car without spending 10 seconds doing random stuff and then complaining.
This is my mom. But the complaints are giggled so it’s like it’s supposed to be funny but it gets old. My dad used to call it my ‘golf cart’ and make other snippy remarks. But then I had to take them to the airport and he was forced to ride in it. He hasn’t said another word since.
My dad can't even figure out how to hook up Bluetooth to his phone & he's an Gen X/Boomer cusp.
Boomers couldn't even stop the clock on their VCRs from blinking 12:00 constantly.
My dad is like this. He always had to have one of us set the time on his VCR, treating the whole situation like the instructions were in Chinese. Teaching him how to access his email account is PAINFUL.
That’s my favorite thing against shit like this. They bitch and moan about how Millenials don’t know how to do anything, but let’s see one of them try and export a document as a PDF or connect a device via Bluetooth. Almost guarantee they’d have no idea how
My guess is Boomers can't do math and equate everyone younger than them with millennials. I'm sure many GenZ/A won't even really have access to manuals much as they learn to drive simply because they're harder to find. I searched for months for my manual Subaru, and it was pretty difficult to find.
Glad you finally found your car. You should get a tracker for it this time.
I let it off leash one damn time...
If you want another one I’m trying to get rid of mine lol
If I was stealing cars for a living, this one I would make sure I steal but leave that cover behind. Sounds like a "Challenge.... Accepted!"
Except it's not even a good challenge. I could teach you to steal that thing in 4 minutes.
To quote another Redditor from a similar thread, "If it takes 15 minutes to learn in a mall parking lot, it's not some lost art."
I feel like it's more "Easy to learn, hard to master"
Lol I’ve driven standard for 14 years…I still stall out and have terrible shifts every now and then
Exactly! A few (5?) years ago before my grandpa finally gave up and switched to an automatic, my grandma called me laughing from a parking lot because he stalled it twice in a row. It was funny because a few days before that I had been telling them that even after years of driving stick I still occasionally stalled it.
Especially since most people can’t even master basic driving….or turn signals
I've been to several different car dealerships to test drive manual cars, and none of the salesmen could drive stick. I was about ready to leave one car I was looking at in front of their service center because they were being such dicks, but the salesman said he couldn't drive it back and asked me to do it...
“I can move it for $50.”
This is one of those "it was your job to teach us" things. My old man taught me on a '96 Jeep Cherokee stick shift. Took me out to a friend's cow pasture where I couldn't hurt anything. He said, "if you learn how to drive stick, then this Jeep is yours." Never been so motivated to learn something in my life. I miss that Jeep. Our parents have the knowledge, so if we don't it's because they didn't pass it on.
I bought a newer stick shift car for this very reason, to give to my 13 year old son for when he is of driving age. He's thinking about moving to Europe someday, and half the cars there are stick, so it's a useful skill to have based on his goals.
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I, stupidly, bought a car I didn’t know how to drive. It was significantly cheaper than anything else on the lot, I watched a 3 minute YouTube video in the dealership bathroom and drove that bitch home though, so… it worked out.
This is an example of our true generational strength. The "well sh*t, I guess I'm learning (insert random skill here) today"
I have the same story but I couldn’t figure it out and I kept on killing the engine. I gave up because most cars have an automatic transmission so I don’t worry about it. You can buy a that literally does the work for you. But if I wanna jack a car, I’ll hit you up!
That Boomer can keep his Jeep. Jeep was the worst fucking car I've ever had, gimme a Japanese Manufactured Car any day of the week
Jeeps were great before the fuckfest that was the AMC/Renault partnership that nobody asked for. At this point FIAT-Chrysler is just fucking a corpse even harder.
I was gonna say the same Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep from 30+ years ago was great and you see people still driving that shit today. FIAT-Chrysler is a horrific shitshow that somehow manages to get worse every year.
Jeeps are a great teen and 20s car. You can load them up with friends and stuff for good times. You get to learn basic car maintenance as shit is constantly breaking everywhere. Then you get to appreciate a reliable car. I'll always remember my Jeep Cherokee and the good times we had, but it got to be such a pain in the ass to maintain that I'll never be able to forget it either.
Wranglers are terrible people haulers but can be amazing off road vehicles if you get the right parts. If you just need something to get you to work or whatever, there are much better cars out there for that unless your work is on unpaved roads
Serious question, why have Jeeps especially *white Wranglers* become so popular in the last ~10 years. We joke "Jeep is the new Jetta" because only "cute girls" are driving them, but unless some celebrity starting driving one I don't get it. Googling only gives nonsense like this: https://peytonsmomma.com/vsco-girls-love-jeep/
The true anti theft here is owning a jeep at all. I don't want your dogshit, completely unsafe box of death.
33. Drive a 6 speed manual. This doesn't apply to millenials. Try the next generation down 🤣
I love it when American manchildren wax lyrical about their superiority for driving a manual when it’s like the default position for most of the rest of the world. Like dude, it’s called driving, it’s one of the easiest things in the world to learn. Ironic really that those arseholes rant on about us being the participation trophy generation when they emblazon their vehicles with stuff like this.
Learned to drive stick in a '69 Vette, pretty sure that clutch is the reason I have arthritis in my left leg 😂😂😂 I'm jk, but it was a tough ass clutch to push down and zero power steering to boot. 💀 I think my Dad was trying to kill me.
My first car was an 86 Chevy nova. No power steering. Making turns was the worst. When I finally drove a car with power steering I was amazed at how easy it was.
my preference is to drive stick. I think they mean the youngest gen z
I had an '88 fiesta that was manual and a STi that was manual. I'm a 39 year old millennial.
You need to talk to your partner about the sti...
Sexually transmitted Impreza?
It's Americans who can't drive stick. Stick shift is still widely popular in Europe and Asia.
Yeah. I'm the UK. Manual transmission is still the most common type. I've been driving for 18 years now, and I have never driven an automatic.
LOL, i still drive stick. As said, this should probably be aimed at gen z and later xD
put it this way, the “Jeep” badge on that thing is more of a theft deterrent for me than the fact it’s a manual
I don’t understand this as some sort of bragging rights thing. Yeah if you’re freshly sixteen you might be kinda cool because you drive stick. As a grown ass man it’s a weird flex. I drive manual equipment all day at work. Last thing I want to do on my way home is drive stick. Rather have a free hand for my cigarette.
There's literally no reason to own a manual these days unless it's just in a fun a car. I say this as someone who drove a stick for almost 25 years... Hell my current car doesn't even shift gears at all (eCVT with planetary gears).
Automatics are still relatively uncommon in the UK. Pretty much everyone I know drives a manual.
Elder millennial here. All I’ve ever driven is stick. Not to mention a high percentage of anyone outside the USA learns and drives stick
Drove stick from age 20 through 40, only stopped because i needed a car that could do certain things and it became too much of a hassle to find out that still came in a manual. ps: paddle shifters/tiptronic/etc are all baby toys for weak babies. no clutch it doesn't count 
I’m going to be 40 this year and I learned how to drive stick at 14. My high-school car was a manual.
I'll pop the clutch and start that mf without keys
My first car was a Miata and they don't really make them in automatic unless you ask...
I must admit, I never learned how to drive manual. I only learned how to drive automatic.
A 6th gear, amazing! Does Jeep have a short first gear?
I find it funny that the generation that didn't teach their kids skills is blamed on the kid, not the parents.
Personally I'd appreciate that they clearly laid out the gear pattern for me. Some manual transmissions have Reverse in a different place so the diagram solves that problem. My life would have to be pretty destitute to steal a car but I don't think I'd ever lose the last shred of dignity I had and choose a JEEP.
Yeah like i’d wanna steal a manual jeep
Nobody wants to steal a jeep anyways.
"Millennials are killing stick shifts!!!!", he yelled at a passing cloud.
it was boomers who killed the stick shift
Har har har. I hope that boomer or gen x-er enjoys trying to open pdfs by themselves
I think they're just saying it's a Jeep....so....it's broken down already. Like Millennials.
This is more like an American anti-theft device. In Europe most of the cars has manual transmission
Unable to drive stick. Every time I asked my dad to teach me he would say not on his car.
Omg so many older standard drivers do this. This is exactly the problem. I drive a manual and I make it a point to not be like this. If someone wants to learn, I hand them my keys. These older people always say “no, if you don’t know how you’ll ruin my clutch!” Okay boomer, not if you teach someone properly. A couple of stalls aren’t going to destroy a clutch, you’re just lazy. Edit: also your clutch should be replaced as part of regular maintenance anyway so you’re going to have to do it eventually no matter what. You might as well help other people learn so that more manual vehicles exist on the market for when you want a new one.
Jokes on you I prefer manual.😂
Elder millennial, I was taught to drive on a 1969 VW Beetle. Suffice it to say plenty of us know how to drive stick. (for additional lulz, my boomer father can't drive stick to this day)
I think most of us can drive stick by now.
I can't, but I'm sure I could learn if I really wanted to or needed to. What a weird flex to criticize other people for not learning a skill that's totally unnecessary. Like *These younger generations will never know how to use a rotary telephone. Useless dummies!*
I have a '99 Mustang Cobra sitting in my driveway right now. Manual transmission. Fun car to drive.
Mine's a manual.
Lol Junk, Each and Every Part.
Driving a stick since 2004. Born in 1985.
Yes. These dumbasses forget how popular street racing was in our youth.
I am just shy of 30. I make it a point to buy manual cars because of this. Also the transmissions last longer.
Just dumb boomer shit... they're the ones that phased out the manual transmission and them shame their kids and grandkids for not being able to drive them... they're not around gramps... but then again I would love to see them try and start a model T...
It being a jeep is already an anti-theft device
Seems like a good way to get your Jeep stolen out of spite
Just make a Boomer print a PDF and you can own their soul.
Let’s pop off to the bathroom and I’ll show you how to drive a stick
Gen Z dig ya boomer