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On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:42:40 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> a gentle (or sometimes less-than-gentle) stop.
>
> I once gave myself a nosebleed by borrowing my mother's car. I was used
> to driving a dinky manual without power breaks. I borrowed the behemoth
> car my parents drove, and as I coasted up to the stop sign, I stomped
> the clutch all the way to the floor, of course. Except their car had
> very strong power breaks and was an automatic with no clutch pedal.
> Ouch.
Ouch indeed. Kinda the reverse of what nearly everyone I know who
learned to drive a stick went through when not timing the clutch properly
when shifting. Of course, you lurch forward (usually) rather than
backwards, so a nosebleed isn't so much of a problem as whiplash. ;-)
Jim
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