Matt Whiting wrote:

> Are you married?

Not anymore. :-)

> I never owned an automatic until I got married... :-(
> I did insist that my wife learn to drive stick, which she did very
> willingly. However, I've conceded to buy an automatic for the vehicles
> that she drives primarily and a stick only for those I drive primarily.
> Compromise is part of marriage, at least successful marriages! :-)

Now that I think of it, I can only recall having one girfriend in the
past 20 years who drove a car with an automatic. The rest have driven
manuals. It's not like I planned it that way, but apparently I'm
attracted to the type of women who prefer manual trannys, which I would
categorize as independent, self-reliant and intelligent. Maybe it's just
a New England Yankee thing...