been driving since I was 14...learned on my dad's '91 F-150, 5spd, 4wd...it had 150K on the original clutch and transmission when I started with it, let's just say, we didn't get along for a while - especially when my dad would make me parallel park it on a hill, in traffic. The upside was, by the time I took driver's ed when I was 15, I could drive that Intrepid like it was my job //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif my instructor kicked ass, those were the days...
In spite of that, I miss driving a manual...there's something about putting your foot down, going up an onramp in high 3rd, shifting to 4th, and going up to 5th while the music's blaring that you miss in an auto. I guess I liked that sense of control it gave me.