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Driving automatics ?

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  • Little_John
    Little_John Posts: 4,033 Forumite
    Not at all.

    I am just fed up with the likes of you and others accusing auto drivers as being lazy. It takes far more skill to drive an automatic, plus it also frees up your left hand to do other things.

    I'm not sure where the evidence is that shows you need more skill to drive an automatic? if that was the case they would allow those who pass their test in an auto to drive a proper car without the need to pass a test in a manual car. I enjoy driveing autos and manuals autos becasue you can just put your foot down and go and manual becasue you can drive the car how you want to drive it, If I want to drop down a gear I can and it is instant in an auto you have to put your foot down then wait for it to realise and drop the gear down.
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    Doubt it MrsE - Goldspangles is gutless ...

    i wish i was.
    ...work permit granted!
  • jeannieblue
    jeannieblue Posts: 4,761 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I'm not sure where the evidence is that shows you need more skill to drive an automatic? if that was the case they would allow those who pass their test in an auto to drive a proper car without the need to pass a test in a manual car. I enjoy driveing autos and manuals autos becasue you can just put your foot down and go and manual becasue you can drive the car how you want to drive it, If I want to drop down a gear I can and it is instant in an auto you have to put your foot down then wait for it to realise and drop the gear down.

    Proper car????

    Are you for real? Are you insinuating that my automatic is not a 'proper car' - it looks like a proper one to me, not a plastic replica. They are better and more superior to drive, you have more control. All this fiddling around changing gears is just a boys toys gimmick.

    Manual Automatics? they are a joke. Manual gearbox, electronic clutch. useless, but necessary in our over pc, green madness to keep so called climate change under control by lessening emissions. yeah right.
    Genie
    Master Technician
  • jeannieblue
    jeannieblue Posts: 4,761 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    i wish i was.
    You're trying to say you are 'spunky'? Can't see that in any of your posts. Scared to say what you really mean more like.

    Besides, you just say things that you think MrsE wants to hear. ;)
    Genie
    Master Technician
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    You're trying to say you are 'spunky'? Can't see that in any of your posts. Scared to say what you really mean more like.

    Besides, you just say things that you think MrsE wants to hear. ;)

    ive heard mrsE is a bit of a looker. :o
    ...work permit granted!
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ive heard mrsE is a bit of a looker. :o

    Thats just a rumor I put about;)
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    You did mean looker didn't you, that wasn't a typo:rolleyes: :o :rotfl:
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    MrsE wrote: »
    Thats just a rumor I put about;)


    but you love the health and beauty board, surely they teach you something over there?:confused:
    ...work permit granted!
  • goldspanners
    goldspanners Posts: 5,910 Forumite
    MrsE wrote: »
    You did mean looker didn't you, that wasn't a typo:rolleyes: :o :rotfl:
    what did you think i meant?
    ...work permit granted!
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    but you love the health and beauty board, surely they teach you something over there?:confused:

    Thats why Jeannie & I spend so much time there, we need lots of help;) :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
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