Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for October 19, 2022

Stick handling is an underrated skill

There’s a t-shirt like that getting lots of advertising.

95% of drivers in Europe drive stick shift. Here, about 2%.

Well Wiz, you’re not going to love where Blanch is fixing to drive a stick.

I was picked up by an Uber lady driving a stick. It was very nostalgic but not real smooth.

If I understand this cartoon correctly a stick refers to a gear-stick ? In the UK less than 15% of road vehicles are automatic. Is this not the same in the US ?

… witch is not what you should say to your wife.

she loves a man who keeps his mouth shut (and trust me with this one)

Is Sabrina going to show up next?

How can he tell how well she plays pool?

He wouldn’t say that if he had met Broomhilda!

everything I drive is a stick shift. The wife,kids and grand sons drive sticks. in the USA

Judging by the look on Blanche’s face, you’re going to regret saying that, Wiz!

For Christmas she’s getting a broom and he’s getting charcoal, which Wiz will make into a diamond for her. Yip yip yip yip yip

not what your wife wants to hear

Dunno why people like stick shifts in this day and age. Computer-controlled automatics are MUCH more efficient than stick shifts, and you don’t have to worry about burning up a clutch. My first cars had stick shifts (Triumphs), now I prefer an automatic. In fact, CVT transmissions match the gear ratio much better than you can do with a stick shift.

Probably not something one should say to one’s wife.

With the wife there substitute “respect” for love!

I know lots of girls who know how to drive a stick shift. But they are my age and really look like that witch.

The best way to keep your car from getting stolen in most parts of the US is to own a stick shift.

Some are more good handling it than others

So do i

I had a car with bench seats and a floor shift. My girlfriend would sit so close that the shift lever was on her right; so she would do the shifting when I pushed the clutch.

Alternate: I love a girl who sticks around!

In my little Honda Civic, back in the late 80’s, I drove a “stick” and one morning, on the way to work, in the winter, I spun out on the freeway….then skidded sideways, and landed on the edge of a cliff….the thing that stopped my car was a Mile Marker pole…the back of my car was Hanging on it! I got on the CB and leaded for help! In about 5 minutes a cop car came and he got out and said, “What are you doing”?And I responded, “….oooh I’m just hanging around the freeway”,

We both laughed and he kicked the pole and my car came back to earth! I offered to buy him lunch but he said, " awwww it’s ok! thanks"!

I was so grateful to him! Needless to say, I’ll pass on the "STICK"❗️☺️

Plenty of t shirts about it too.

Doubt if i could ever drive a stick ,with arthritis in my knees it would be hard!

I read where some thug tried to car jack a vehicle, only to find that it had a stick shift. He didn’t know how to drive with a stick shift, so he abandoned it. Score one for stick shifts.

My daily driver is a stick shift. I’ve had it over 12 years.

Lots of huff and puff going on these comments. It’s kind of sad when your sense of superiority comes from what sort of transmission you use. Of course, for some it’s another opportunity to throw in some “stupid Americans aren’t as good as us because they do things differently.”

Manual Riding Witches Be Loco!

Fly the unfriendly skies of Wicked Witch Airlines. You’ll be sorry! ;-)

I refused to let my daughter get her driver’s license until she could drive a stick. A friend took her to a parking structure with an older Jeep. I was saved from having to teach her myself, but she took to it just fine. She hasn’t driven one since but I bet she would look at it, think about it, and make few mistakes as she took off. When I took driver’s ed, there was one choice. Three on the tree. Those were annoying.

Is there a hidden meaning in that statement….?