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My first job out of high school was working as a technician apprentice at a Pontiac dealer. At the time I had never had access to a stick shift vehicle so I didn't know how to drive one. I was too embarrassed and worried for my job that I didn't know how to drive a stick so I never told anyone. I learned on customers cars. The first stick I ever drove was a Trans Am that my boss wanted me to drive about 10 miles to warm it up and then run it over to the emissions station for its test. They probably figured out I didn't know what I was doing when I stalled it twice on the service drive, then revved it, dumped the clutch and left a couple of skid marks about a foot long on the epoxy painted service drive. They laid me off after a couple of months, but not before I became competent with a stick on all the other Firebirds, Trans Ams, and Sunbirds that came in.
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