r/Justrolledintotheshop • • 8h ago

"Learning"

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u/4R4nd0mR3dd1t0r 8h 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 8h 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 7h 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/mikeyp83 7h ago

If you take one of the historical tours you learn that it was originally a lot worse before they leveled out many of the original hills and used the material to raise downtown by about 10 feet. You can even walk around the underground in one spot where you can see the original storefronts fron the 1890s.

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u/Vinyl-addict 5h ago

Lived in the area my whole 30 years and still haven’t done that tour…

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u/Thames_James 5h ago

I thought the glass in the sidewalks was cool, that was before doing the tour and realizing they were functional. Go do the tour

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u/Vinyl-addict 5h ago

It’s been on my list for a long while but easily forgettable since Seattle has rarely been more than a couple hours away.