Haven't posted in here before, but I'm picking this up tomorrow and I am about to BUST!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

30. Ahh, yes. A stick shift as a theft deterrent!

I know that I'm as safe from car-jacking as I can possibly be, because so few people under the age of 60 or so can drive a stick. It probably helps that my current car is an '04 Honda Civic, which is as undesirable a car as is out there.

While it's been a decade since I last bought a car, a while back I bought three cars in 18 months, thanks to cars being totalled. It was always interesting going on to a lot and insisting on looking only at cars with manual transmissions. Most salesmen under 40 or so had never known a woman who could drive a manual transmissions. Their mothers almost never had. Back when my sons were in high school, in the early 2000s, their friends were always impressed when they noticed I was driving a stick. Go mom!

I cannot begin to imagine driving a tractor trailer. I have always and only driven small cars. Like so many my age my first car was a Beetle. So was my second car. I'll spare you a complete list, but the largest vehicle I owned was a Subaru Outback. My (now ex) husband had a Toyota 4Runner and I drove it maybe six times. I hated how bit it was.

What is a dual stick?