Bob,
Consider yourself lucky or at least that you got off easy...
Last month there was a guy trying to teach his girlfriend to drive their
Jeep Cherokee (don't know if it was a stick or not). They were in the
Marina parking lot on San Francisco Bay. They ended up going IN the bay...
he died.
Gerard
At 1:54 PM -0600 1/11/02, Mueller, Robert CDR wrote:
>Well, I did have the bonnet off when I was calibrating the needle - wife
>thought I was crazy driving around without the bonnet, making her watch the
>calibrated pencil stuck in the dashpot while I watched the tach and the
>mixture gizmo.....I told her it was better than driving over the mountains
>of Idaho, at night, in the rain, with her big time pregnant.....at least she
>does laugh a little when I mention that, but it's not a funny laugh!
>Sometimes I think she enjoys me enjoying the Midget...
>
>Then there was the time I tried to teach her to drive a stick in my old MGB!
>Said MGB was quite the rust-bucket that looked OK from the outside, but was
>rotten to the core - like don't open both doors at the same time or they
>will be tough to close. Anyway, we were newly married and I thought it
>would be good to teach her how to drive a stick, that way she could drive
>either the MGB or the TR-250. We go out to an empty parking lot, first
>couple of shifts are fine, then we stop and she attempts to start out again,
>but promptly strips out the splines on one of the wire wheels. The wheels
>were in about the same condition as the car, and I explained it wasn't her
>fault, the wheel was just about shot anyway, but she was horrified. I take
>over and we limp home, but to this day (12 years later), she won't get in
>the driver's seat of any stick shift. I guess it worked out OK, I only have
>to fix the things that I break!
>
>Coastie Bob
>'74 MG Midget
>'90 944S2
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