What a fucking disaster. Today I decided that it was a good day to learn how to drive a standard. It started out ok, my mom took me to a local cemetary to learn. I had some trouble smoothly letting off the clutch and applying pressure on the gas pedal at first, but I sort of got the hang of it. While driving in the cemetary, I never got out of 2nd gear. This is mostly because its a cemetary and you don't really have a need to go fast.

Well, as I was pulling out of the cemetary onto the road everything was going smoothly. Until it is time to shift to the 3rd gear, instead of shifting to 3rd, I accidently went to the 5th gear. Now I have no fucking idea what is happening, the engine seems to be going crazy, I am hearing clunking noises, and my mom is yelling at me to get into 3rd gear. In the confusion trying to get into 3rd gear, I manage to shift down as i look in my mirror to find that 3 cars are behind me. When I shift down I press down on the gas to speed up for the cars behind me, the engine starts to make this crazy wirring noise and I slow down alot, I notice my RPM needle is all the way to the right. Then I decide that this is because I am in first gear, I then finnaly get it into 3rd gear and go along my merry way. This was all when I was going up a hill BTW.


What a nightmare. I hope it only gets easier to drive one of those damn standard machines.