My family was adamant that, in order for me to drive, it would have to be alternating between a stick shift and an automatic. I appreciated this because it turned out to be for the better, as I can now operate both with relative ease and am not confined to driving one or the other.

I don't appreciate the opinion of people looking down upon those who choose not to drive stick; those people are what I consider to be outrageous jackasses who have something to make up for.

The car I currently have is an automatic because my girlfriend is learning to drive still and she isn't comfortable with stick shifts in the city that I live in. All the drivers in it are terrible and I narrowly miss accidents every day due to faults of theirs.