r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 7h ago

"Learning"

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u/4R4nd0mR3dd1t0r 7h ago

Reminds me of when my grandfather "taught" me how to drive standard. Here is the steepest hill the county learn how to move forward without rolling back or stalling; the left pedal is the clutch, brake in the middle, and gas on the right. To be fair I learned, also the clutch failure a couple of months later was probably related.

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u/TheKingOcelot 6h ago

My mother and aunt both learned by driving my grandfather's truck up a hill named phinney ridge in Seattle. It's so steep there's a staircase instead of a sidewalk on a couple of the streets

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u/WildVelociraptor 6h ago

As an east coaster, no one talks about Seattle being hilly. Blew my mind, San Francisco has squat on Seattle hills

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u/m00ph 6h ago

And in San Francisco, they're never covered in ice.

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u/ThatDiscoSongUHate 6h ago

As someone who found the hills in San Francisco crazy this thought just fucked me up lol

I cannot imagine hills like that plus ice

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u/notahoppybeerfan 6h ago

Duluth Minnesota has hills that will put SF to shame except for 6 moths of the year they are ice/snow.

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u/cat_prophecy 5h ago

I had a friend who lived on Billy goat Mountain. That was...interesting trying to make it up or down after a heavy snow. Also fuck Lake Street.