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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OkieJoe72" data-source="post: 4082214" data-attributes="member: 48447"><p>Today was a little bitter sweet, but overall it was a good day. My daughter asked if she could start driving her brother’s pickup. It’s been almost one year since she lost a brother and I lost a son. His pickup has mostly just sat in the driveway since he passed. My daughter is 18, and I never got around to teaching her how to drive a vehicle with a manual transmission. Today, she learned to drive it. We went out to some county roads with nobody around, and we spent most of the day starting and stopping. It started out pretty typical for someone learning to drive a standard vehicle. Lots of sputtering, stalling, and tires screeching, but she got the hang of it fairly quickly. She then learned to start on some small hills, and I told her that she was ready for a bigger hill. We drove about a mile where I knew there was a pretty big hill. As the hill came into vision, she said “Oh $h#t”. She doesn’t normally cuss around me, and she said it like she truly meant it. We had a good laugh before she attempted the hill. On the first try, we rolled backwards for a bit before she gave it the gas and spun rocks behind us for about 200 feet. The second and third attempts got a lot smoother, and I told her that she now knows how to drive a standard transmission.</p></blockquote><p></p>