Driving a clutch

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A friend tried to teach me stick before I even had a license or any driving experience. Back country road, 65 miles an hour, slow tractor suddenly in front of us, nice ditch to land in... Lesson learned from that, make sure they are comfortable with hitting the clutch and the break at the same time because the reason we ended up in the ditch was I took my eyes off of the road to look for the clutch.

I did eventually learn, and one thing I wish the person who taught had done was found a hill with no traffic and let me practice starting the car up. I felt very uncomfortable with starting the car up and the way it drifted a bit when you first started to release the clutch and the first time I had to do it on a hill (at a stop sign) I almost drifted back into the car behind me.

Other than that, I can only suggest that you have lots of patience and try to stay calm even in scary situations (him yelling at me to hit the clutch also helped to send us into a ditch).

Heidi

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