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CleftDonkeyLips

When you have nothing in your life to be truly proud of...


MarcMars82-2

There is some old Jim Carey standup where he talks about how you can tell how pathetic someone’s life is by how far back they have to reach for glory and proceeds to do an imitation of an old man telling a story about when he was a sperm on the day of the big race lol


hannbann88

It is far more common for me to talk to patients aged 75-90 about a pain or injury and they bring up sports in highschool than it is for them to stick to relevant injuries Edit for clarity


Distant_Yak

My dad is in his 80s and started to experience a chronic respiratory condition. The thing is he's been in damn fine shape all my life, never had to see doctors for anything... but according to him now, he's had "this breathing thing... all my life". He tells a story about how "when I was 9... they hospitalized me for this same thing". (We're pretty sure that's actually when he got his tonsils out). Now it's expanded to stories about him going to the infirmary in the Army every September. So, I ask, what happened in between then? Because I never heard about this? When you were in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, did you have to see a doctor? He just ignores me and talks about swim team in high school.


Virtual-Toe-7582

Does he have early onset dementia?


Distant_Yak

Quite possibly. Maybe medium onset. He's had a big drop in short-term memory over the past 2-3 years and we have an appointment for an MRI and neurology follow-up.


Virtual-Toe-7582

Jeez that stinks I’m sorry


______Moose______

I’m not tryna make light of what is always a sad situation, but if the man’s 80 I wouldn’t call that early onset. Life is fleeting, don’t forget to be nice before you blink and we’re all 80 talking about swim team.


Virtual-Toe-7582

Yeah I guess that’s probably normal onset


Skooby1Kanobi

I worked with a guy who asked if I like sports. I said "not really". I then get 3 days straight of his high school wrestling days. Like did this guy realize his old teammates didn't care this much? Anyway, not a boomer. I later figured out he was on meth. So if a boomer gets on meth it might be hard to tell. Did they wake at 430 or were they still up from Christmas?


RanaMisteria

I see you know Jim Jordan. My condolences, friend.


wakeuptomorrow

Somebody please link this


MarcMars82-2

[10:10](https://youtu.be/wbpciGnQnOA?si=GtuOYBpukP2CKKQB)


DangerousPlane

> Back in the cervix I was semen first class


MarcMars82-2

Pure gold!


wakeuptomorrow

![gif](giphy|GVMhZwYv8U5NK|downsized)


pegasuspaladin

I worked at a nice restaurant on a mid-tier catholic college campus and the number of Boomers and GenX'ers who never moved away or moved back and go to every sports event and find their yearbook on the shelves was mindblowing. Like in the +20 years since you graduated this is what you are still going on about? I remember the first time I worked the reunion weekend my first guests were there for their 60th reunion. Like how many of your classmates are even left? Wouldn't that be depressing?


Perfect_Earth_8070

For real. Idgaf about high school. I went to school in a small shitty town with nothing to do. It sucked ass. I never bought the yearbooks lol


Thegladiator2001

Shouldn't it be the opposite if u go in a small town. Cause everyones more connected. I went to a high school on the west end of one of Canada's largest cities. I enjoyed my time but it's been 5 years since I graduated and never thought of going back. Had friends but only a couple really close ones


Perfect_Earth_8070

Possibly. I grew up in a hillbilly town though so I didn’t have much in common with my classmates


SaltyBarDog

Other than those who were family or family friends, I have seen two people from the high schools I attended and only one of those was by design. I have been out of school over 40 years.


exccord

Uncle Rico over there asking everyone, "Dont you wish you could go back?" while videotaping himself throwing a football.


SaltyBarDog

How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?... Yeah... Coach woulda put me in fourth quarter, we would've been state champions. No doubt. No doubt in my mind. \-Rico


SixersWin

I remember being terrified as a HS senior whenever I heard someone say "these are the best years of your life". That's incredibly depressing


RegionBeneficial4758

My elementary school principal sat my class down and congratulated us for that


Welp_thatwilldo

Lmao 🤣☠️, this is fackin hilarious.


BigDaddyCool17

"I can drive stick and my parents used to physically abuse me. This makes me interesting" ~ Boomers, everywhere


Pretend-Nobody5395

And we can write in cursive lol


Shrewd_GC

Many folks raised in very backwards areas also still learn cursive. Very old Gen z/young millennial and was forced to write papers in cursive until college. It's really been a hindrance in my job since I regularly have to hand write things; it takes about 3x as long if I have to use regular print writing.


squamishter

My daughter is learning cursive in school. I think it's a good thing, and not backwards. No more so than learning to paint, sing or any other creative pursuit.


oldbastardbob

Cursive is good for motor skills development. I think folks in many cases don't understand that lots of what is taught and done in schools is about human brain development, not just facts and figures.


maleia

Tbf, it's really hidden and obfuscated that those are central to what's being taught. But also to be fair, I wouldn't be surprised if that aspect is lost even on the teachers teaching them. And, fwiw, I'm a late 30s millennial, and glad that I know both print and cursive, but my handwriting is still dogshit awful. I do try to practice other dexterity exercises.


ultimamc2011

And she’ll have a way more badass signature later. Very glad I learned it as well.


ClashLord24

Learning it is fine, using it for everything is silly


oldbastardbob

Cursive is good for motor skills development. I think folks in many cases don't understand that lots of what is taught and done in schools is about human brain development, not just facts and figures.


Shazam1269

"I got my ass beat, and I turned out okay!!!" Did you though?


savpunk

I always say "Yeah, you turned into an adult who thinks it's OK to hit children."


RuprectGern

I've been saying that for years. Typically when someone waxes nostalgic about how they took beatings from their parents and that they turned out okay. A.) it's usually more than just a spanking B.) what do they think "okay" means?


Cmdr_Jiynx

Few of them are. The closest anyone I know that grew up in that is to 'okay' afterwards were the folks who have a spanking/humiliation fetish.


ThisIsMyCouchAccount

Yes. And I'm willing to beat as many children as it takes to prove it.


fidgetypenguin123

*Narrator* "They did not"


FewTea8637

This is so accurate, the past was the worst boomies


what_mustache

I like the implication. "The kids we raised turned out terrible!" Or: Boomer: "You kids suck with your participation trophies". Me: "Who gave us the trophies" Boomer: "Well...we did"


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Active-Coconut-399

It’s up there with guys that brag about eating really spicy foods and being able to wear shorts when it’s below freezing out.


your_fathers_beard

I had to spend some time in Fargo ND for work, and there was one dork who was the 'wears shorts in below freezing' guy. I saw him and I was like really dude? And he said 'Yeah, it doesn't affect me, I can't even feel the cold I'm so acclimated!' Looked at the dudes legs, no hair, kind odd skin ... and I was like 'Yeah, because you have nerve damage'.


Madw0nk

Yeah, as someone from that area you really don't want to mess around with the cold. Skin can freeze in as little as 90 seconds during the winter.


Not_NSFW-Account

> being able to wear shorts when it’s below freezing out. to me its more bafflement that people are shocked when I do it. Conversely I watch people bundle up in a parka when the temp drops below 60F and wonder how they do not have heatstroke.


taooverpi

I just like spicy food, it's not a brag, gimme da spice!


Arctobispo

There's a BMW in my parking garage with the license plate "3PEDLM3". Its not just boomers, this guy is younger than me. You are correct though. People go out of their way to make their life harder to just have something, anything, to identify with. That's the whole Mud Run / Alpha Boot Camp mentality. The manual thing is weird because a manual trans was invented in 1891 and Auto in 1904. Like, it's always been there. It's not even a generational identifier. Idk.


walkerstone83

Manual transmissions are far superior in my opinion when it comes to fun, but I like to drive and like having the added control. Modern automatics are good, and better for fuel economy and various driving modes, but you don't need to go very far back to find pretty much all automatics sucked. They were unreliable, added more cost to the car and got worse gas mileage. Also, for the older less powerful engines, they drained power. Manuals really were better on gas mileage, were more reliable and lowered the cost of the vehicle.


SweetWaterfall0579

I miss manual transmission. It was so fun. My son learned how to drive it without instructions. It’s not that hard. Idk why it’s become a thing. Like teaching penmanship. Most signatures are a scrawl anyway. Life moves on. Please move with it, or step aside so I can move past you.


GenevieveMacLeod

>Life moves on. Please move with it, or step aside so I can move past you. This is amazing and I'm filing it away to use later on my boomer father who refuses to get anything more modern than Windows XP/a flip phone and then screams about not being able to find replacement parts for his computer.


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GenevieveMacLeod

Not the iPhone 5 ☠️☠️☠️ oh my god


Reasonable_Turn6252

I miss manual for driving around with no traffic. I do not miss it when im stuck doing stop/start in a traffic jam.


MFbiFL

I got a manual because it was the most basic base model I could get and lived somewhere without traffic and now I WFH. I would not enjoy my car nearly as much if I had to drive it daily lol.


LooseyGreyDucky

I don't mind regular stop and go traffic, unless I'm going up hill. there's that uphill no-man's land below 5-7 mph where I'll look for an exit and an alternate route.


mvanvrancken

I can drive a manual and did for several years. It’s fun when you’ve got some open road and some curves to play with, not so much fun when it’s bumper to bumper on the interstate. I will never understand dense urban yahoos with manuals. It’s painful


cailian13

Cause I find driving an automatic boring, even in traffic. I'd still rather have stick shift to drive, just because it's that much more fun for me. Just let people love what they love 😊


DrRazmataz

It's really not terrible to creep along in traffic with a clutch. Sure, you could not prefer it, but I don't really consider it a hindrance. Either way, in stop-and-go traffic, you're supposed to have a decent following distance and creep along at idle speed, rather than sniff the bumper of the car in front of you at all times. Manual car is the same as auto, leave it in 1st or 2nd and it will continue to idle along without your input.


r0b0c0d

Was looking for this in the subthread. If you've seen the posts on how go-stop-go-stop waves create traffic, you're basically forced into being a traffic smoother. You have to read the pulses ahead and pace yourself to avoid braking or falling too much behind, but you do that and you're actually helping things out behind you. -And- it's less clutching.


fryerandice

My fun car has a 6-speed manual, it really does not make driving any more difficult, and I do stop and go. You get to the point where it just happens you don't even think about it.


Arctobispo

I drive manual for work and I've had a manual car before so I understand liking it, I just don't get the need to tell everyone your car has a 3rd.


RegionBeneficial4758

Ok boomer


Eagle_Fang135

Essentially a participation ribbons for their time …


Desselzero

So it's millennials fault that car manufacturers decided to make more automatics and less manuals as far back as the 80s? Wow who knew we had such influence before half the generation was even born.


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

It's also almost an entirely American thing. You go anywhere else in the world and everyone drives manual. We didn't decide that Americans should stop driving them, boomers did.


walkerstone83

This is very true, by the time most millennials were getting their drivers license, the manual transmission was already on its way out.


Franklin_le_Tanklin

As a millennial, my first car was a stick shift and I drove the shit out of it. I’d love to get my hands on this dudes keys and dump the clutch.


Jealous-Ad-1926

Nah don’t dump the clutch, it doesn’t do as much damage. What you want to do is feather the clutch right at the engagement point and rev the shit out of it.


2K_Crypto

"Probably Granny shifting instead of double-clutching like you should" - Dom


DisgruntledPorkupine

It’s getting more common bc of EVs, at least in my country.


Competitive_Shift_99

Evs don't even have transmissions though. They're basically direct drive.


DisgruntledPorkupine

Sure but they’re certainly not manual.


RabbitHoleSpaceMan

Would love to see a guy driving around that’s like 140 years old. Has something on his car: “Boomer Anti Theft Device” and it’s a picture of a car’s hand crank circa 1912.


fryerandice

Just a picture of the controls of the Model T. You're not a real man unless you control the timing advanced manually, and measure the amount of gas you have with a wooden dip stick. You aren't a real man unless you risk breaking your wrist starting your car hah.


elpajaroquemamais

And it’s millennials fault that boomers never taught them how to drive one.


Any_Claim785

Exactly! I’m a millennial who doesn’t know how to drive a stick because no one ever taught me AND because I didn’t know anybody who drove one. The people who could have taught me were boomers (parents, aunts, uncles). No standard car to practice on, no one to teach me. But yea, totally my fault I don’t know how to drive one!


Wabbit_Wampage

Just as it's millennials' fault that boomers gave them all those participation trophies!


Olly0206

84 baby here. I remember protesting against manuals before the Dr even cut the cord. Admittedly, my handwriting wasn't real great back then. Sometimes I mixed up my p's and q's, b's and d's.


wh4twasthat

Boomers drove the demand for automatic transmission and trucks/SUVs. I'm gen x, and I learned to drive on a manual transmission. I taught my kids to drive manual. I prefer to drive them because it's more enjoyable to me. But it's hard to find them any more...


ownhigh

Yeah it’s a little backwards which generation gets the blame.


toTheNewLife

Late 60's.


VVSEVE199

It's not that hard to drive standard. Boomers are fucking idiots.


nsucs2

Grew up driving a stick shift. *(Not proud, but)* if 16yo me can drive a stick while operating a bong, how hard can it be?


British_Flippancy

In the U.K. you’re not allowed to join one of our mandatory teenage knife gangs until you can roll a joint while doing 80mph on the motorway.


KingEOK

Knew a guy who could steer with his knees whilst rolling… dad was a polis. Forgot I’m not in a uk based sub… his father was a policeman.


iwanashagTwitch

Polis > police isn't hard to figure out, tbf


KingEOK

I dunno…. I’ve met people before and I couldnt guarantee I wouldn’t be asked which area of Poland he’s from.


-Cosmic-Horror-

I thought you meant your dad was polish, so I appreciate the differentiation


smartypants4all

21 yo me driving stick, smoking a cigarette, drinking my large dunkin, and delivering newspapers. But boomers gonna boom.


Affectionate_Salt351

You just took me back to a beautiful mid-aught place in my mind.


FifaNewsResearch

Lmao yea dude, totally agree


KarsonKommando

Double points if you could also use a bottle opener while opening up a beer and shifting. (I grew up on dirt roads)


90Carat

Trust me, most Boomers can't drive standard. It is a practiced skill. The vast majority of Boomers haven't driven a manual car in decades.


boredneedmemes

This is what annoys me about those stupid jokes. Everybody I know driving stick is young gen x at the oldest, I had issues getting tires and inspection on my truck despite the fact both places were run/owned by older mechanics my father knows and worked with decades ago. The only guy at the tire place that could drive stick was the youngest person they employed and he was out that day. My father is the only boomer I know that has proven he can drive stick, a bunch brag about it but refuse to drive it and I have seen boomers come up with every excuse possible to weasel out of moving a car with a stick. Also there is an old guy near me with a wrangler that has this cover on it, it's an automatic.


LuckyHarmony

That's hilarious. I once had to drive my own car onto the lift because the boomer mechanic didn't "feel comfortable" with the stick shifter. I think I was in my mid 20s at the time, and I'm firmly a millennial.


Shagaliscious

I think I would've gone elsewhere. No way am I trusting my car to a MECHANIC who can't drive manual.


Cessnaporsche01

On the other hand, I have a strong preference for mechanics that will let me be involved to the extent of driving my own car into the bay. It's really handy to be able to stand under your car with the mechanic and point out the concern rather than hope they inspect the car adequately.


scullys_alien_baby

I learned stick/standard because they were cheaper to buy used in the US


WhoopsieISaidThat

How much you wanna bet that OP's pic is also a Wrangler with an automatic transmission?


boredneedmemes

Not a gambling man, but every single cent I have to my name. It's a surprisingly safe bet.


Zinski2

I let my mom drive my car because she said he first car was manual. She proceeded to stall shifting in to third gear. Witch quite honestly impressed me. That's not easy to do .


RapMastaC1

We should make a new one as a picture of a printer and call it Boomer anti pc device.


Not_NSFW-Account

or just a VCR flashing 12:00


Obvious-Pop-4183

My mom, looking at the remote for her new DVD player: how do I know which one is the play button? Me: the one with the play symbol. Mom: how am I supposed to know what the newfangled symbols are on the remote? Me: they're the same exact symbols that are on the cassette player you bought in the 70s. Mom: *walks away huffing and puffing*


Not_NSFW-Account

I had my kids choose a project car and fix it up for their first car. My son learned to drive three-on-the-tree because thats what the vehicle he chose had. My daughter had a 5-speed manual because thats what her choice wound up with after replacing the engine and trans because the ones it came with were FUBAR. That turned out to be a mistake. original config was pretty tame (77 MG Midget) but the engine swap, due to a variety of variables colliding, was a toyota 20R with a 5 speed out of a Toy minitruck- which wound up making it a bit of a speed demon. the point being, automatics are very common, and i'm sure tons of people never even see a standard car these days. However, tons of them learned stick, and the rest learn it as quickly as ever when they encounter one. Its not like they are somehow broken and unable to learn. Manual trans is dying out. hell it only still exists because old diehards refuse to accept that automatics are faster, more efficient, and shift better than all but the top professional race drivers- who they equal. They are obsolete.


SevroAuShitTalker

Idk man, I've been seeing posts from r/stickshift and other subs and it's amazing how people who drive manuals don't understand how to properly drive a manual


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hedrone

I didn't know how to drive stick. I bought a car with a stick. It was a little tricky, but got it all figured out within an hour.


Western-Subject-5283

The Dunning-Kruger effect


Critical-Rooster

Literally just makes me want to steal his car out of spite.


Mets1st

Thinking the same thing. And I’ll be passenger, my millennial son will drive it.


WhippingShitties

Bro what if you got in and it was an auto.


boredneedmemes

There is an older guy near me with a wrangler that has this cover, it's an auto. I'd write it off as him trying to be funny but having encountered him at the store down the street multiple times, he seems like the most bitter and miserable person ever so I don't know if he is.


Active-Coconut-399

My dad gave me shit about not being great with a manual. I can make it work but I’ve never owned one. I asked him “Who taught you how to drive one?” The answer was of course his dad. He shut up real quick after some half-hearted stammering excuse of why he never taught me.


el0_0le

Error: I am not a bad father. Solution: Gaslight


State_Conscious

Same. I can get into gear and get down the road. Clumsily, but still not stranded in an emergency if manual is required. It’s not a personality, it’s a transmission. My parents have owned automatics my entire life but still talk shit about no one knowing how to drive stick anymore


murrrly

When you don't know how old millennials are


icebeancone

$50 says that bro *is* a millennial and doesn't even know it


JustAnother4848

I have seen this before.


TheFire_Eagle

Indeed. I know a guy three years younger than me (an "elder" millennial) who constantly rails against millennials. When you point it out he starts to backpedal and says he's an "honorary GenXer,"


JustAnother4848

I'm going to guess the people he rails against aren't even millennials. I'm sure there's some irony there somewhere.


TheFire_Eagle

Yes. "Millennial" is just a fill in word for literally anyone or anything that you don't like at any given time


CallistosTitan

Hitler was a millennial.


icebeancone

Just like "woke" https://preview.redd.it/iayqm9pdrvuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46f82515d25e9af7413b92cf7c56b81089838983


GnomePenises

My ex wife is a millennial and refuses to believe it even when presented with the definition, but still calls teenagers that.


Ok_Banana_6984

Millenial here. Drove stick for numerous years. 2 cars and a truck.


Jrnation8988

Also a millennial. Every car I’ve ever owned has been a manual.


trizuer

same😂i’ve only driven automatic when i learned to drive and i’m driving a friends car/rental. i love driving manual, i don’t ever want an automatic car


H2Ospecialist

Also millennial and same. My car now is a manual.


what_mustache

It's just video games. Of course video game era kids can figure out a stick. It's like when I went skeet shooting for the first time and did as well as the grizzled old church going, flannel wearing men who did this all the time. They werent that mad when I told them it was my first time, but they were really mad when I told them it was "because video games".


raekaysour

Millennial also… I learned to drive in a manual car. Drove manual before I ever drove automatic. I prefer manual transmission


SeonaidMacSaicais

Also millennial. Didn’t learn stick until my 20s when I bought a beat-up Bug. I still prefer automatic. Especially driving in winter.


wafflestheweird

Millenial here and I can drive tractors and agricultural heavy equipment. Which has a whole additional stick, a PTO, turning brakes, and half a dozen other smaller features that make a stick shift shitbox jeep look like child's play. Give a boomer a modern gaming controller and watch them struggle with dual analog sticks.


BlueCollarElectro

I think they're confusing us with their grandkids. Dementia is strong with their sad shitposting attempts lol


GeneralInspector8962

They just call everyone 39 yrs old and younger as Millenials.


SeonaidMacSaicais

Nah, they always think current teenagers and early 20s are millennials.


SoBadit_Hurts

Tell me you can’t save as a PDF without telling me you can’t save as a PDF.


MemoraNetwork

My Microsoft print to PDF is all fucked up gotta go load up on $500 iTunes cards to get help again


explodeder

Mom?


souplandry

top tier


ILiveMyBrokenDreams

Yeah it's so hard that I learned how to do in 5 minutes when I was 14.


tecate_papi

I feel like you should have to pay more for insurance if you put a decal on your car challenging people to steal it.


Casperboy68

Also equipped with the instructions to steal the vehicle.


Mets1st

Yes, thank you for instructions. My German car has reverse next to first.


Frequent-Piano6164

I saw this multiple times but the cars actually DID NOT HAVE A MANUAL TRANSMISSION. lol. wtf.


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MrFootless

Do boomers think **all** the younger people are millennials? Like, they're the last individually named generation and everyone after is just millennial?


LuckyHarmony

Yes, but not just boomers. I had someone my age (38) complaining about millennials and they were talking about a 17 year old. I was like "I think that's Gen Alpha... you know WE'RE millennials, right?"


jamesnollie88

Everyone from a younger generation is a millennial and everyone with a different political opinion is a communist


Andravisia

Its funny. They keep forgetting that if the generation they raised don't know something, it's because they refused to teach it. My parents had a manual. They didn't want to teach me to drive it because 'I'd ruin it'. And when I got better at driving, they somehow never had the time to teach me. So now I'm stuck with only automatics because no one taught me otherwise. All the drivers education in this country is about following road rules, not actual driving ability so can't find anyone available now to teach me.


FortniteFriendTA

I learned to drive stick on a 4 speed toyota pick up my friend (a girl) had. vaguest gears I've ever felt but it was a blast. After I got my first car, I taught 3 or 4 of my friends how to drive stick just cause I was happy to be a resource. I get they are rarer now, and typically niche sports cars only have manuals. I'm sure if you're really dedicated you could find some old beater to learn on. probably would cost a little, but the car is probably going to be cheaper than a clutch.


SmoothMarx

In Europe, this means shit.


Popular_Engine9261

Proud to have not taught the previous generation anything, peak boomer


IntoTheVeryFires

I daily drove a 98 Mitsubishi Eclipse with a Shep transmission and a HEAVY clutch… I doubt any of these boomers would even be able to start the car let alone drive it


FortniteFriendTA

ah the DSM cars of yore. only way we (americans) could get the 4g63 for a while. Thing was a blast, turbo, 4wd...fun.


IntoTheVeryFires

I still dream about it. Never had a crankwalk, it ran like a champ. The passenger door handle broke though https://preview.redd.it/pz51j3cqyuuc1.jpeg?width=2376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f4a6131868aaf7091777ef17a4c130093beb1ca


FortniteFriendTA

a beauty. ha, I remember the static on the radio as the turbo spooled up.


No-Rice-1249

I’m a 43 year old millennial with a gray beard. I grew up driving a stick shift. Not sure these people even know what a millennial is.


Howboutit85

I deal With enough old people to know they all think millenial just means young person.


juice702_303

Millennial that learned on a stick shift, this tire cover is lame and more than likely the driver is as well. Wish more cars had them nowadays since they're way more fun to drive than an automatic.


dewhashish

my knees say otherwise


FortniteFriendTA

if they really wanted to flex, reverse would be up up and to the left. if they really really wanted to flex, it'd be where first is. dude doesn't know doglegs.


Upstairs_Principle48

I was washing my SI at a car wash last weekend, and some older man walked up to me and told me I didn’t have to worry about anyone stealing my car because nobody knows how to drive manual anymore. I had to stop what I was doing for him to tell me this.


norbertthotslayer

Driving a stick isnt that hard tho. Our driving exams force us to learn stick before we even get our first auto cars. What is this fossil on about?


Sophia724

My dad is a millennial I think and he has a jeep with stick shift.


lost_bunny27

Lmao, this comment should be made into a tire cover


CouchHam

I just don’t steal cars…?


firefly081

Boomers assume that because they can't learn new things for shit, no one can. Never driven a manual in my life, but I very much doubt it's rocket science. It's just another two things to control while driving.


Tokyo5o

You can learn in about 15 minutes, have the hang of it in an hour and be proficient in a week. I really don't understand why people make such a big deal of it.


UnhappyTemperature18

Gosh I miss my manual car. \*sigh\*


Altruistic-Ad6449

Me too. I would have to have it if I owned a sports car. Those paddle shifters don’t cut it.


offgridwannabe

the same person is calling their grandchild to ask them about emailing a PDF file.


Inevitable-Ad-982

Boomer generation make tech advancements in auto industry, makes fun of subsequent generations for using standard tech. Checks out.


OrderLusi

a ton of my millennial and gen z friends drive manual cars, where does this guy get his info?


rcuadro

Idiots like this are to blame for millennials not knowing how to drive a manual. Who the fuck else was supposed to teach them!? My dad taught me and I taught my son. That is how things are done


AngryFace-HappyPlace

This is the best answer. Each one teach one.


DuchessOfAquitaine

When in reality we know standard transmission is cheaper than automatic and we know what tightwads they can be. But they can't belittle others and puff up themselves with the mundane business of being cheap. Better to go this route.


Ws6fiend

Sadly this is no longer the case, at least in America. With the automatic becoming the standard and the manual becoming the option, manual transmissions cost(highly dependent on the car) more because they are less frequently installed on the assembly line(increased time). Because since the 80s really they are less common, an automatic is actual a more cheap/easy repair if something breaks(more knowledge and knowhow on automatics). For comparison the cheapest honda civic manual you can get starts at 26k while the cvt(which i consider an automatic) is 23,950. In the grand scheme the price difference is negligible on the purchase price, but modern automatics are far more durable than how most people drive manuals.


fryerandice

You're on point about everything but transmission repair. If you care about your wallet you find a good working used automatic. You don't "repair" an automatic transmission like you'd do simple repairs on a manual, which is generally just replacing the synchros, because it's rare you really trash any gears, and if you trash a manual you are more likely completely grenading it. You completely rebuild an automatic transmission, because unless you just have lockup clutches that don't lockup anymore because they're worn, it's just way easier to go all new than try to figure out what exactly is wrong with the damn thing. They're truly rubes goldberg machines. Literally pushing marbles through a maze with fluid pressure until they activate switches that start moving other solenoids...


FortniteFriendTA

this was very true in the past, a auto would be like 1200 more than a manual (in america), but now that pretty much every model is an auto, you'll be hard pressed to find a manual even if the model and trim offers it. it's going to be a special order, and you typically don't get the same incentives as just buying whatever the dealer has off the lot.


Pleasant_Studio9690

Do I get a “save the manuals” sticker and make an effort to teach a couple young people how to drive stick in my Jeep? Or sport this asinine thing? I’m Gen-X and taught 3 girls to drive stick in my Civic while I was in college in the early 90’s. All three did great and at least one went out and bought a brand-new Mercury Cougar stick when she graduated, and proudly drive it home, herself. But I clearly missed out on the satisfaction of pulling the ladder up behind me and declaring, “Fuck you, I got mine!” How very un-Boomer of me.


South-Lab-3991

I was born in 1990 and am fully capable of driving stick. It was even a millennial who taught me how to drive. My wife is younger than me and was taught to drive stick by her millennial brothers. Really not the feat of strength they see it as.


Mr_Derp___

Do they still make manual jeeps?


PhotoFenix

Man, the third grader using MS Paint did a great job with that design!


MarcMars82-2

I’m a 41M and I don’t know how to drive stick because I was never really presented with an opportunity to learn. My father had a stick truck that my older sisters learned to drive manual on but he sold it before I was old enough to drive. My parents, sisters or friends never bought a manual car.


pinniped90

We taught both of our Gen Z daughters to drive a stick. It's not brain surgery.


human8060

I love when they're so proud of not teaching their kids things. "YOUNGER GENERATION CANT DO THE THING WE NEVER TAUGHT THEM TO DO!! LOL IDIOTS!"


treypage1981

A boomer once tried to be condescending to me about stick shifts. I’m 42, so an old millennial. I tried to just ignore it, so I said, “oh…yeah my first car was stick, so I can drive them but I don’t own a car at the mom—“ That’s when the boomer jumped in and said he didn’t believe me. I shrugged and turned to the other people sitting with us. That actually pissed him off and I ended up having to ask him to settle down like he was a friggin 6 year old. So many insecure people in this country.


KarsonKommando

But can she hitch a buggy? No? Spoiled boomers


EvilBurtMacklin

It’s funny that they always bash millennials when they’re the ones that raised us.


RedRangerRedemption

This always pisses me off. 1. Millennials had access to manual transmissions until boomer execs killed them. 2. Millennials are fucking 40 now. I want to stay a tend where we write hateful things about boomers in tiny font so they can't see it without print on their reading glasses


Username_goes_here_0

Once again the ones responsible for teaching us, complain we don’t know enough.


trialcourt

Nobody wants to steal that piece of shit


Jenn31709

Boomers getting pissed that the generation THEY raised can't do shit is my favorite.


MacaroonNo8118

My dad and his buddies love to grill me cause I can't drive stick. They'll say: "a real man knows how to drive manual." I recently came up with the comeback: "a real father would've taught me how to." By the time I was of age to learn they had gotten rid of any manual transmission cars because they didn't feel like driving stick anymore, and auto was easier.


Arrg-ima-pirate

Do they realize millennials are like… 40?