Does anyone have trouble driving their car?

[wildkat]

I can't figure this out!
I come in off the road & get into my car...& I CAN'T seem to figure out how to drive it.
The jake brake doesn't work, the gears (6 speed manual) are too close together, I slow down WAY too fast, I turn corners WAY too wide, and I'm always looking out the right side mirror to see if I cleared the corner!
Am I nuts? Or do others have this problem too??

[joettanne]

You mean to tell me that I really don't have to take the corners as wide!!

Uh, oh!
So I just look like one of those other dumb blonds behind the wheel!
Hee! Hee!

And I can never find the clutch pedal in my car!
And I have to fall into the car instead of climbing up. Never seem to get used to that.

[wildkat]

And I'm ALWAYS hitting my head on the door jam! I think am gonna have a flat spot on the top of my head soon!! :?

[Shawnee]

sometimes when I get in my dodge pickup I take turns really wide and when I let off the fuel I wonder why it doesn't slow down like it should

sometimes when I drive the Mustang I bang gears trying to shift without the clutch

[LadyNorthStar]

2 things I tend to do....

Not push in my clutch all the way..makes a terrible noise.
and
Worse, I have...on occasion, put the car in first when I wanted to back up. DOH!

[wildkat]

2 things I tend to do....

Not push in my clutch all the way..makes a terrible noise.
and
Worse, I have...on occasion, put the car in first when I wanted to back up. DOH!

Well, truthfully I have't had THAT problem as reverse IS in the same place as my truck. It's got a little thingy you pull up & put it in 1st gear & you are then in reverse. THAT took a bit to figure out cause then when I took it out of reverse the first thing I did was put it in 3rd...NOT good LOL

AND I constantly forget to USE the clutch. SHEESH :twisted:

[LadyNorthStar]

I don't use the clutch in the truck, so I'm not sure why it causes me to only push in my car clutch part way, I guess its stuck in my head from driving school.
lol

[wildkat]

me neither...
I do the same thing..only push the clutch in part way. I think it's cause I had to "fake" it when I was teaching my students how to double clutch. I was never taught how to use it so I had a helluva time teaching it to students, so I learned to make it LOOK like I was doing it, but not really doing it. Does that make sense?

Now THAT was the year from hell....being a driving instructor! Every want a job where you have to have nerves of steel & a stomache of iron?? God, talk about fear factor!!! Gimme the ice roads anyday hahaha

[LadyNorthStar]

My driving instructor is selling his business and figured I should buy it. He was pretty lucky with me and some others, but I did a few ride alongs with some of his students that weren't taking to the truck as fast as the rest of us..... no thanks. lol

Sometimes I see if I can still double clutch, I can on the upshift but am totally unco-ordinated with the downshift, usually makes me laugh out loud at myself.

[wildkat]

My driving instructor is selling his business and figured I should buy it. He was pretty lucky with me and some others, but I did a few ride alongs with some of his students that weren't taking to the truck as fast as the rest of us..... no thanks. lol

Sometimes I see if I can still double clutch, I can on the upshift but am totally unco-ordinated with the downshift, usually makes me laugh out loud at myself.

hahah hear that. I use both feet when I downshift..one for the brake & one for the fuel...can't do it any other way. Screw up big time if I try! Was necessity to learn that as crushed my left heel in an accident 10 years ago & have zero strenghth in my left ankle to push the brake.

Trouble when you get experience...everybody wants you to train...I don't like people enough to share my space. THAT was the main reason I became an o/o way back when

[Roco]

THIS IS TRUE Roco :P

[heavyhaulerss]

ever pull up to the diesel fuel pump & your 4- wheeler ? or look for the air horn cable when someone cuts you off ? how about zi-zag backing up as if your trailer was back there ??

[Shawnee]

ever pull up to the diesel fuel pump & your 4- wheeler ? or look for the air horn cable when someone cuts you off ? how about zi-zag backing up as if your trailer was back there ??

Yeah I have done that, I have train horns on my big truck and I have the valve for them beside my drivers seat and sometimes when I get cut off in my pick up truck I start reaching down to find the valve for the big horns

[4roses]

aint that the truth ... we ride around in a 'big' truck and the regular car we've driven all our life is now a foreign vechicle to us ..... I drive a full size family car and each time I get in it now .... it feels as if I'm almost setting on the ground ... forget trying to turn any corner like a normal person ...... people sure do look at me strange when I go to pull into a parking spot at wallyworld .... wide swing and creep into the spot .... And to think I complain about the way older people drive ...... dang .... what do the 4wheelers think of us after getting out of our trucks..... I wish I could just use my tractor as my everyday vechicle when at home .. sure would make life easier 8)

[wildkat]

aint that the truth ... we ride around in a 'big' truck and the regular car we've driven all our life is now a foreign vechicle to us ..... I drive a full size family car and each time I get in it now .... it feels as if I'm almost setting on the ground ... forget trying to turn any corner like a normal person ...... people sure do look at me strange when I go to pull into a parking spot at wallyworld .... wide swing and creep into the spot .... And to think I complain about the way older people drive ...... dang .... what do the 4wheelers think of us after getting out of our trucks..... I wish I could just use my tractor as my everyday vechicle when at home .. sure would make life easier 8)

Hear that! I don't live in the city anymore & when I HAVE to go with my car I am literally PETRIFIED!!

4wheelers scare the tar outta me! LOL

[Piece Of Work]

Very funny stories.

[wildkat]

Well I just couldn't believe I was the only one! (There's gotta be more than ONE blonde truck driver out there!! ) Isn't there???? LOL

[MamaDrivesTruck]

My Mom finds herself speeding everytime she gets home to her 'little' truck as my kids call it. She drives a Sierra. I haven't noticed the wide turns yet, but shes only been driving for less then a year.

[Larry Heyns]

I tend to pull my car into the scales when I'm on vacation.

[joettanne]

I tend to pull my car into the scales when I'm on vacation.

This is funny Larry, I think I remember the rest of the story! Something about getting weighed?


Annie :wink: