{"id":13367,"date":"2024-07-05T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2024-07-11T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:19:06","slug":"the-joy-of-shifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/07\/05\/the-joy-of-shifting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy Of Shifting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/stick-shift-cars-valet-manuel-3a38b206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baby, Can You Drive My Car? Not If It\u2019s a Stick Shift<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Manual transmissions are increasingly rare in America, foiling teenage carjackers and frustrating valet parking lots<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/news\/author\/spencer-jakab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spencer Jakab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Drive a Stick Shift\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_gmGoQ1dI2E?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mary Sampietro got the scare of her life five years ago. It left her disappointed in America\u2019s young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mental health professional was in her stick-shift 2016 Jeep Patriot in a rough neighborhood in her native Houston when she rolled down the window to smoke a cigarette. Suddenly, a teenager stuck a gun in her face, ordering her out of the car. He got in but only made it to the next traffic light before stalling the engine and running away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was like \u2018How can you be a carjacker and not know how to drive a manual?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Sampietro, who learned to row her own gears in a 1970s Datsun pickup truck with no power steering, the skill\u2019s increasing rarity is a frequent source of annoyance. Her husband\u2019s career requires her to attend events with mandatory valet parking. The job often attracts college students. One particularly bad experience convinced her that they often lie about being able to handle the odd stick shift like hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis young man ground my gears in a way that made me want to throw up,\u201d she says. \u201cI turned around and parked way down the street and walked. I did not tip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/stick-shift-cars-valet-manuel-3a38b206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Wall Street Journal Baby, Can You Drive My Car? Not If It\u2019s a Stick Shift Manual transmissions are increasingly rare in America, foiling teenage carjackers and frustrating valet parking lots By\u00a0Spencer Jakab Mary Sampietro got the scare of her life five years ago. It left her disappointed in America\u2019s young people. The mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}