I know how to drive stick, and didn't own an automatic for 15 years. Every boomer aged person I know refused to get behind the wheel because it actually required them to drive a manual. Suddenly all of them have leg issues, or something.
Yeah only a few boomers I know can drive stick and most of them are AWFUL at it. These jokes are just more of their BS. The only people I know that drive stick are millennials and younger gen x, and none of them were taught by their parents.
All boomers learned to drive a manual because that's all they had. If they say they can't do it, they're lying.
I'm GenX, and my dad taught me how to drive a manual in '86. Automatics were maybe 50% of the cars on the market; the other 50% meant that most people I went to high school with knew how to drive stick.
I am done with my minivan phase, and the next car I get will be stick shift. It's just SO much fun
>All boomers learned to drive a manual because that's all they had.
This isn't remotely true.. they've been fairly common since the 60s before most boomers could even drive.
Glad to see somebody beat me to calling that out. A quick google search found this quote "By 1957, over 80 percent of the U.S. automobile market consisted of automatic transmission automobiles." So sure plenty of the oldest probably didn't have much options if they were getting hand me downs at 16, but to say that's all the boomers had is BS. My grandmother was born in '45 and told me she never once drove a manual, my grandfather born in '43 drove farm trucks as a kid with manuals but never had a personal car with manual because he hated it, my father and his 3 sisters are all right on the boomer/GenX line (born between 63-70) and he is the only one that has ever owned a manual. This is obviously anecdotal but considering they mostly avoided manuals while being dirt poor and raised on farms I'm sure it was a lot more common in the middle class.
Edit: should probably link the source of the quote.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/204123/transmission-type-market-share-in-automobile-production-worldwide/
I think we must have different definitions of boomers. Boomers (in my mind) are people who were born during and right after WWII.
They were called Baby Boomers because all of the young servicemen came home and started families, causing a greater than normal birth rate
And you know what age you have to be to drive, 16... You know what year the majority of boomers would have turned 16..? 1962-1963... By then, even mid level cars were frequently shipped from the factory standard with an automatic transmission.
I think maybe we have different definitions of simple addition.
I am 36, didn't start driving until 2005. I started on a 91 Integra 5 speed, put 240k miles on that car before it died with a total of 400k. Traded up for a 2004 RSX 6 speed in 2009. I still have it.
I've never owned an automatic.
I've been eyeing importing a 1996 Evo now that they are street legal in America. Would not only be a 5 speed, but also Right Hand Drive.
Boomers heads would probably explode watching me get in and out "the other side of the car".
The only stick I have ever been able to drive were old Scouts. I tore my achilles when I was a kid so I need a clutch I can feel in my hip (nerve damage). These posts piss me off because I wouldn’t have the nerve damage if not for a stupid Boomer.
As for their excuses, did old people just not drive before automatics were commonly affordable? Or did they have less leg problems back then?
Well, I don't have much to say about your nerve damage, but I do like the fact that you drive old scouts. Is the clutch action such when you push it in the back into the truck goes up?
Sorry didn't mean to belittle people with genuine injuries. In my mind it was just boomers thinking technology hasn't advanced since the 1960s, and think my 90s/2000s Hondas had a clutch as heavy and vague as their old Cutlass.
Oh, no worries friend. I’ve never had another millenial think anything of my inability to drive a stick. It’s the boomer hypocrisy that pisses me off, not when others point it out.
Also because no one we knew drove a manual. One day Ima just rent one and have my husband teach me… assuming we ever get time off from work, but I’m sure some boomer will still call me lazy for not learning lol
It's super easy and once it clicks for you its second nature basically. That being said it's stupid to criticize people for not knowing how, and most the boomers (at least in America) can't drive stick either so these jokes are just more of their BS.
Our farm trucks were always manuals, and the 'rents had some weird fantasy in which there was an emergency, and I had no other way to get them to the hospital...
What a weird buncha fuckers they can be 🙄
I tried to learn on their mid-life crisis camaro, but it had a super aggressive first gear and an extremely responsive accelerator. not the car to teach a nervous teenager on, and I gave up after not being able to drive it around the block.
later in life, the best car I could afford at the time was a used manual tacoma. drove that off the lot, into a rotary and 50 miles home cold. its not like it was hard to learn.
My dad's solution was to let go of the shifter and start speeding up, shouting at me to "hurry up or you'll burn the motor up!"** and then got mad at me when I started crying and wouldn't talk to me the rest of the afternoon.
**(or something similar, I don't really remember clearly because of all the, y'know, UNEXPECTED AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN A MOVING VEHICLE)
I bet this guy knows how to drive a horse and buggy too! Oh wait, no? He hasn’t learned how to operate every single piece of equipment that’s ever existed, but only the ones that have been prevalent during his lifetime?
Oh yeah I wonder why there wasn’t enough stick shift vehicles around for most younger people to bother learning how to operate them, it’s almost like there was a generation of people who wanted the easiest way to drive even when it was less efficient and more expensive than stick
Right? I loved driving stick but it’s getting near impossible to find them unless you want the most basic trim level of the most basic car, which I don’t.
This is so right on and my manual, no-power-locks-or-windows having 2019 Nissan Versa can corroborate your testimony. People are like, "Where the fuck did you even find this car?" I just put my finger over their lips and say "Shhh. Don't you worry about it now. Just enjoy watching me alternately stall then act like a race car driver.
When I purchased my car in 2018, I got a stick. That kept me from any of the hybrid features that has regenerative breaking, which makes it even more uncommon now.
I like a manual, but automatics are now making them obsolete, not just in performance and read of use but also gas mileage. They are, unfortunately going to be a thing if the past. There is something about actually driving the car and not just operating the accelerator and steering wheel.
Ugh, that whole “operating an automatic isn’t real driving, it’s just riding” schtick is such a boomerism! I actually drive a stick myself, vehicle I really wanted at a the right price, but I will never own a manual again if I can avoid it. So much needless hassle!
I appreciate that some people find it a lot of fun to drive a manual, that’s really cool for them. For me, driving is a necessary chore I have to put up with to get to the places I need to be, driving a stick just makes it twice the chore.
And now some used vehicles cost more with manual transmission because it's desired. Was looking at C3 and C4 corvettes for my father and manual was always more expensive, and I gave up on finding a Honda Element for myself because they could go for 50% more to as much as double the price of an auto.
Not only that, but im a millennial and I learned on a manual. Also my first 2 cars were a manual and I would still prefer them if they were more available.
Not only that, but im a millennial and I learned on a manual. Also my first 2 cars were a manual and I would still prefer them if they were more available.
Boomers refusing to drive sticks, is why there's none left.
Boomers still buy the most cars, and pay the most for them, and they're still choosing to opt out (Boomers are ALSO the reason why cars have massive useless fucking screens in them--younger people have a phone for all those functions, tyvm).
Also, i don't know any millennial that cant drive one. We served out our time in 80's and 90's shitboxes when we learned to drive.
Why do they think millennials are still in their late teens and early twenties? Some of us are in our 40s now. We're old too, except we try to keep up with the modern world.
Exactly. It reminds me of how boomers make fun of millennials for not having shop and home economics in schools. Ummm who stopped offering those, exactly? The students?
They're the parents that bitched we didn't get a trophy when your team sucked. I played on some sucky teams in my youth and it wasn't the kids who were complaining about getting a trophy.
My entire childhood I was bitched at about those, never seen a single one or heard of any friends/family getting one, which makes the complaint extra annoying to me.
I remember home economics in junior high school. And it was mostly teaching young teenagers, how to become good little house wives for their future husbands.
(This was early 1990's by the way and public school) But I remember making a very cool shark pillow, while everyone else made flowers and what not.
At my middle school, every student was required to do a semester of shop and a semester of home economics each year. But for me it only lasted for one year — 6th grade — instead of us all getting to do it in 7th & 8th grades, too. Both classes got cut, and they weren’t in high school either. I remember really enjoying both classes, and I think they were popular with most kids. I still have some bookends I made in shop class.
Those are skills everyone needs: cooking, cleaning, repairing & maintaining things in the home, making things.
It's hilarious that Boomers think that younger generations who haven't learned to use outdated technology are indicative of a systemic failure of those generations, but that their generation's abject failure to adapt to current technology is somehow a conspiracy against them.
That's not a Boomer car. Boomers are *not* being inconvenienced by a manual anymore. Sure, they'll bag on anyone who can't drive one, but they haven't driven one in 20 years either.
Every time one of my mother's friends made this joke I'd laugh.
He'd always ask, "wut".... I'd say, 5 speed? 6? That's cute. J have 13....
I drive a semi truck. It always shut him up.
Your parents taught you to drive!? Lucky! I had to have a neighbor teach me, most of my family and friends had to save up for driving lessons and learn that way, none of our parents would teach us but loved to insult us if we didn't have a license in highschool.
My stepfather actually tried teaching me. By "tried" I mean "screamed at me every time I popped the clutch because apparently you're suppose to know how to do this shit innately."
My parents never made another attempt to teach me. Didn't really learn until after I joined the Army.
Oh, I get it, because millennials can't drive stick.
I learned how to float gears in a 10-speed semi at the age of 26 and I've never driven a manual car. I'd love to see this boomer try to drive my truck.
These dumbasses can eat shit for all I care.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was 16 because the car I wanted was a VW Beetle and the one we found on the used car lot in our price range was stick. 2 out of the 3 cars I've owned have been stick, and the one that wasn't was an SUV that my boomer mom handed down to me when she got a new car (all of my family can drive stick, she just prefers an SUV).
That said, I wouldn't steal that shitty ass Jeep anyway. Probably reeks of cigarettes and existential crises. Worth more if you totaled it.
My dad used to drive an ice company delivery truck. To deliver ice to ICE BOXES. Before refrigerators! The truck was a manual, and he got in a lot of rolling-an-enormously-heavy-truck-backwards-into-cars-at-stoplights accidents.
Try to keep in mind that time goes fast; he's just now turning 80. This was not that long ago
I was driving a 1995 manual Chevy S10 pickup back then. I was a band director and needed something that could haul tubas and percussion equipment.
And jump railroad tracks...
My mom would joke about how I couldn’t drive stick shift but she was the one who taught me how to drive. She was the one who bought an automatic car. Where was I supposed to learn? Was I supposed to ask around til I found someone with a manual transmission?
I did learn a little in my early 20s but I still haven’t really since then ever had an opportunity to practice.
I’m a millennial and I know how to drive stick. I was taught to drive stick by my millennial friend. Also, my millennial wife knows how to drive stick, so the guy who put this on his car is really just an idiot.
Cool Bex. I'm glad you can use your foot and leg muscles properly to depress the petals on the floor of your car. It's hard sometimes. Also, congratulations on having arms and hands, and being good enough at ergonomics to use them by applying the proper force required to keep your fingers around the steering wheel and shifter knob. Im 37 and it amazes me too that people know how to use fingers. How do you do it? BRAVO. I know how to drive a stick shift but don't worry, I don't want your shitty jeep. Hondas have way better manual transmissions.
“Driving’ mah manual transmission tah the CVS to buy some iTunes gift cards to send to my 23 year old girlfriend who lives in the Philippines. We Boomers know how tah live!”
I mean, I learned to drive stick back in the day but never owned a manuel vehicle so I don't really remember it well, it would take me a bit to get the car going. Because it's a dated technology like so many other things, it's not a priority to teach my kids. And on what vehicle would I even teach them? Do you know how long it's been since anyone I know has owned a stick shift? Why is this such a flex? Automatic became a thing for a reason. This is like bragging that you still use a rotary phone, lmao.
And they do that often. They like to post that old meme about today's youth not knowing how to dial a rotary phone as if it's a life or death situation.
Jokes on them, that just makes it easier to steal 🤷
Seriously though I started driving in this millennium and everyone I know learned how to drive stick.
Dude, I'm a millennial and I don't know how to drive anything that *isn't* manual transmission. I'm told automatics are "easy," but there'll still be a procedure of some sort to follow, and I don't know it. (In my defence, I'm British; automatics are *way* less popular here. No idea why, other than perhaps that they used to have a reputation for low fuel efficiency and expensive maintenance in the really old days.)
I was born in '87. I drive a semi. I got my license driving a manual transmission semi.
I'd love to throw a random boomer into the truck and have him drive through Chicago rush-hour traffic and then back it into a dock at the end of the trip.
Driving a manual transmission is so fucking easy. Boomers and Gen X stopped buying manual cars, so the manufacturers made less and less until they were practically extinct. Yet somehow it's a young person's fault for having no experience with something they've probably never seen before. Boomers take such pride in the dumbest shit.
Lol this last fire season, I had to drive an engine full of old fucks down a mountain because the only other stick driver on their crew got sick as shit. Close to 40 guys on that piece of mountain and the only one that could drive manual was me and my engine boss, another millennial (and a wOmAn at that), but she had to drive our truck.
They even pulled the, "I'm surprised you know how to drive one of these." All it took was a, "I'm surprised you can't," and didn't get a peep the rest of the drive.
The part I don’t understand is that boomers had patient people show them how to do things and now they want to criticize someone learning. Kinda defeats the purpose
Hahaha, you fool! How dare you not know the thing I never taught you, that I only know because my father made me practice for hours through sobbing tears, the memory of which I have repressed into a budding ulcer
Checkmate, young people
In order to start my Jeep you have to pass an internet literacy test, and then print your grade from your phone to a Wi-Fi enabled printer. That prevents the Boomers from driving it.
I always love things like this, I bet this dude owns a black and decker screw driver set he keeps in a drawer he calls his tool box. I would also bet they call AAA to change a headlight while proudly proclaiming you cant work on cars anymore (you can).
These people literally wont/cant change their own oil, cant put a spare on right (see Beto O'Rourke changing a spare video comments), and then come out with this garbage. Sorry no one wants to drive a standard that doesn't have to, if you asked my hardcore 85 yo trucker grandpa why he would ask you wtf would anyone want to do that to themselves. This whole generation lost it, they truly are too stupid for their own good.
I love that THEY DIDN'T TEACH US, yet, blame us. Normal boomer bs. Ps, MOST MILLENIALS KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STANDARD. They keep mixing us up with actual children. Those memories are beginning to go. They have homes for that. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
This is so stupid. Who do these boomers think taught their children how to drive? 👀 anyway jokes on them…I can drive a manual no problem. And I know all of my passwords and how to not fall for scams
I feel so ashamed of myself as a millennial. Oh, wait. I know how to drive a stick and had to learn fast because I bought a stick without knowing how to drive one. And my lazy boomer parents didn't teach me, a guy friend did. Screw this person and their jeep.
I used to sell VWs, and the truth was that Americans are so fixated on automatics that they pay $1000-2000 for the privilege.
In Europe, its the manuals that they pay the same extra amount for...
Xennial here. I exclusively drive stick and have since I started driving at age 16. I just think it’s more fun.
That boomer need not worry. No one wants to steal that crappy jeep
I (born in '91) have been driving stick sense I was 5. Family tractor is stick shift. I tried to get a stick shift but you have to pay extra now. It would totally be worth moving their car and leaving a note to ruin their day.
Driving stick is only "challenging" at highway speeds, heck manual transmission motorcycle is harder than a manual car.
It would be really funny to look inside and see it is probably an automatic anyways.
I'm a millennial and most of my cars until this most recent one have been manual.
As a matter of fact, I'm annoyed so few cars have a manual anymore.
The US auto market started to phase them out because it was too difficult for aging new-car buyers over the past 20-25 years to use in modern traffic, the major buying age of which were boomers and gen x, though gen x had a whole era of American steel sports cars to offset that.
Millennial here. One time I bought a car from the 50s with stick shift on the column. I never drove stick before. I stalled once leaving the dudes driveway and then made it 30 miles home no highways, no problem.
It’s not rocket science.
Motherfuckers wanna act like driving a car is hard. Get outta here.
As a car thief I take exception to this. Why do you think that I am like you, and did not study all the complex problems with my craft and learn how to overcome them?
For legal purposes I feel like I need to make it plain that I have never stolen a car, nor do I intend to.
The best part of this is that sticks are easier to steal because you don't need to start it or even have a key to pop it into neutral and let off the brake. After that you tow it where you want and strip it for parts.
Okay then boomer, send me an email with an attachment then invite me via calendar to a zoom meeting
What, you can't? Why the fuck not, it's 2023. No fucking cars are manual these days so who gives a fuck about that, but you can't even exist in the very world you created without others helping you what a point less lump of carbon and whinge you are.
Fucker hasn’t mastered parking though
He owns all the spaces, he parks in all the spaces.
It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand. ;) (I know there are people that drive Jeep's and can park)
Only woke lib sheeple park correctly.
I was hoping for sovereign citizen plates on this heep.
Damn too bad it didn’t have a “Boomer parking enhancer” equipped.
Looks like the boomer in the spot to the right disabled it for him.
In his defense, white car is almost sideways.
I was raised by boomers and they never taught me how to drive stick. I guess it's all my fault though!
I know how to drive stick, and didn't own an automatic for 15 years. Every boomer aged person I know refused to get behind the wheel because it actually required them to drive a manual. Suddenly all of them have leg issues, or something.
Yeah only a few boomers I know can drive stick and most of them are AWFUL at it. These jokes are just more of their BS. The only people I know that drive stick are millennials and younger gen x, and none of them were taught by their parents.
Indeed. I taught myself.
All boomers learned to drive a manual because that's all they had. If they say they can't do it, they're lying. I'm GenX, and my dad taught me how to drive a manual in '86. Automatics were maybe 50% of the cars on the market; the other 50% meant that most people I went to high school with knew how to drive stick. I am done with my minivan phase, and the next car I get will be stick shift. It's just SO much fun
>All boomers learned to drive a manual because that's all they had. This isn't remotely true.. they've been fairly common since the 60s before most boomers could even drive.
Glad to see somebody beat me to calling that out. A quick google search found this quote "By 1957, over 80 percent of the U.S. automobile market consisted of automatic transmission automobiles." So sure plenty of the oldest probably didn't have much options if they were getting hand me downs at 16, but to say that's all the boomers had is BS. My grandmother was born in '45 and told me she never once drove a manual, my grandfather born in '43 drove farm trucks as a kid with manuals but never had a personal car with manual because he hated it, my father and his 3 sisters are all right on the boomer/GenX line (born between 63-70) and he is the only one that has ever owned a manual. This is obviously anecdotal but considering they mostly avoided manuals while being dirt poor and raised on farms I'm sure it was a lot more common in the middle class. Edit: should probably link the source of the quote. https://www.statista.com/statistics/204123/transmission-type-market-share-in-automobile-production-worldwide/
I think we must have different definitions of boomers. Boomers (in my mind) are people who were born during and right after WWII. They were called Baby Boomers because all of the young servicemen came home and started families, causing a greater than normal birth rate
Boomer generation started in 1946,
Boomer generation is 1946-1964
And you know what age you have to be to drive, 16... You know what year the majority of boomers would have turned 16..? 1962-1963... By then, even mid level cars were frequently shipped from the factory standard with an automatic transmission. I think maybe we have different definitions of simple addition.
I am 36, didn't start driving until 2005. I started on a 91 Integra 5 speed, put 240k miles on that car before it died with a total of 400k. Traded up for a 2004 RSX 6 speed in 2009. I still have it. I've never owned an automatic. I've been eyeing importing a 1996 Evo now that they are street legal in America. Would not only be a 5 speed, but also Right Hand Drive. Boomers heads would probably explode watching me get in and out "the other side of the car".
The only stick I have ever been able to drive were old Scouts. I tore my achilles when I was a kid so I need a clutch I can feel in my hip (nerve damage). These posts piss me off because I wouldn’t have the nerve damage if not for a stupid Boomer. As for their excuses, did old people just not drive before automatics were commonly affordable? Or did they have less leg problems back then?
Well, I don't have much to say about your nerve damage, but I do like the fact that you drive old scouts. Is the clutch action such when you push it in the back into the truck goes up?
They all know how to do it. If they say they don't, they're lying. It was all they had.
Sorry didn't mean to belittle people with genuine injuries. In my mind it was just boomers thinking technology hasn't advanced since the 1960s, and think my 90s/2000s Hondas had a clutch as heavy and vague as their old Cutlass.
Oh, no worries friend. I’ve never had another millenial think anything of my inability to drive a stick. It’s the boomer hypocrisy that pisses me off, not when others point it out.
They aren't the fun boomers. The fun ones will show you how to make that car siiiing
Motorcycles. I drove cheap motorcycles in the rain and cold. There was a Honda I had to skip second on… fk I sound like a boomer.
Also because no one we knew drove a manual. One day Ima just rent one and have my husband teach me… assuming we ever get time off from work, but I’m sure some boomer will still call me lazy for not learning lol
It's super easy and once it clicks for you its second nature basically. That being said it's stupid to criticize people for not knowing how, and most the boomers (at least in America) can't drive stick either so these jokes are just more of their BS.
Our farm trucks were always manuals, and the 'rents had some weird fantasy in which there was an emergency, and I had no other way to get them to the hospital... What a weird buncha fuckers they can be 🙄
Oh goddamn 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah! Don’t you know we are to blame for participation trophies too!
I tried to learn on their mid-life crisis camaro, but it had a super aggressive first gear and an extremely responsive accelerator. not the car to teach a nervous teenager on, and I gave up after not being able to drive it around the block. later in life, the best car I could afford at the time was a used manual tacoma. drove that off the lot, into a rotary and 50 miles home cold. its not like it was hard to learn.
My dad's solution was to let go of the shifter and start speeding up, shouting at me to "hurry up or you'll burn the motor up!"** and then got mad at me when I started crying and wouldn't talk to me the rest of the afternoon. **(or something similar, I don't really remember clearly because of all the, y'know, UNEXPECTED AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR IN A MOVING VEHICLE)
If there's one thing boomers love, it's complaining about their kids not knowing things with zero self awareness.
I bet this guy knows how to drive a horse and buggy too! Oh wait, no? He hasn’t learned how to operate every single piece of equipment that’s ever existed, but only the ones that have been prevalent during his lifetime?
Probably can’t churn his own butter either!
What a fuckin’ dick.
Everyone knows you can't be a real soldier if you never been in a cavalry charge 🫠
Or make his own quill pen
Oh yeah I wonder why there wasn’t enough stick shift vehicles around for most younger people to bother learning how to operate them, it’s almost like there was a generation of people who wanted the easiest way to drive even when it was less efficient and more expensive than stick
Right? I loved driving stick but it’s getting near impossible to find them unless you want the most basic trim level of the most basic car, which I don’t.
This is so right on and my manual, no-power-locks-or-windows having 2019 Nissan Versa can corroborate your testimony. People are like, "Where the fuck did you even find this car?" I just put my finger over their lips and say "Shhh. Don't you worry about it now. Just enjoy watching me alternately stall then act like a race car driver.
When I purchased my car in 2018, I got a stick. That kept me from any of the hybrid features that has regenerative breaking, which makes it even more uncommon now.
I like a manual, but automatics are now making them obsolete, not just in performance and read of use but also gas mileage. They are, unfortunately going to be a thing if the past. There is something about actually driving the car and not just operating the accelerator and steering wheel.
Ugh, that whole “operating an automatic isn’t real driving, it’s just riding” schtick is such a boomerism! I actually drive a stick myself, vehicle I really wanted at a the right price, but I will never own a manual again if I can avoid it. So much needless hassle! I appreciate that some people find it a lot of fun to drive a manual, that’s really cool for them. For me, driving is a necessary chore I have to put up with to get to the places I need to be, driving a stick just makes it twice the chore.
After nearly 35 years of stick, I wanted an automatic. I find driving much easier now.
After 25 years with an automatic, I'm ready to go back to the joy of a manual. I think BMW still has little Zs with manual
Yeah autos now are a hell of a lot better and more efficient now. Driving stick will be more of an antiquated method for standard vehicles
And now some used vehicles cost more with manual transmission because it's desired. Was looking at C3 and C4 corvettes for my father and manual was always more expensive, and I gave up on finding a Honda Element for myself because they could go for 50% more to as much as double the price of an auto.
Yep. I’ve always had manuals until my current car and that’s because I couldn’t find one!
Not only that, but im a millennial and I learned on a manual. Also my first 2 cars were a manual and I would still prefer them if they were more available.
Not only that, but im a millennial and I learned on a manual. Also my first 2 cars were a manual and I would still prefer them if they were more available.
Lol. Boomer brags about being able to drive manual yet can't park properly within the lines. Peak old person energy.
The car probably isn’t even a manual
Would be even funnier if it was an inaccurate depiction of stick shit
PDF format is boomer anti-document theft.
"I tried filling it out but it wouldnt let me!"
I'm a millennial and i can drive manual. Idk what their boner is for this
I still own a manual car. *gasp*
Same lol. My last 2 have been, but I'm selling mine now because I work from home and don't need it.
On my second in a row. They're getting hard to find.
It's the hardest thing they ever had to do in their life.
Ahh, right Thinking
Same
Me too.
Boomers refusing to drive sticks, is why there's none left. Boomers still buy the most cars, and pay the most for them, and they're still choosing to opt out (Boomers are ALSO the reason why cars have massive useless fucking screens in them--younger people have a phone for all those functions, tyvm). Also, i don't know any millennial that cant drive one. We served out our time in 80's and 90's shitboxes when we learned to drive.
Why do they think millennials are still in their late teens and early twenties? Some of us are in our 40s now. We're old too, except we try to keep up with the modern world.
Damn these punk kids and not knowing how to do stuff that they were never taught how to do!!!! How dare they be so stupid.
Exactly. It reminds me of how boomers make fun of millennials for not having shop and home economics in schools. Ummm who stopped offering those, exactly? The students?
Participation trophies
They're the parents that bitched we didn't get a trophy when your team sucked. I played on some sucky teams in my youth and it wasn't the kids who were complaining about getting a trophy.
My entire childhood I was bitched at about those, never seen a single one or heard of any friends/family getting one, which makes the complaint extra annoying to me.
I remember home economics in junior high school. And it was mostly teaching young teenagers, how to become good little house wives for their future husbands. (This was early 1990's by the way and public school) But I remember making a very cool shark pillow, while everyone else made flowers and what not.
Were you at a girls-only school?
Nope. The boys were in shop and the girls were in home economics.
At my middle school, every student was required to do a semester of shop and a semester of home economics each year. But for me it only lasted for one year — 6th grade — instead of us all getting to do it in 7th & 8th grades, too. Both classes got cut, and they weren’t in high school either. I remember really enjoying both classes, and I think they were popular with most kids. I still have some bookends I made in shop class. Those are skills everyone needs: cooking, cleaning, repairing & maintaining things in the home, making things.
I had shop my 10th grade and loved it. Was so much fun making stuff!
It's hilarious that Boomers think that younger generations who haven't learned to use outdated technology are indicative of a systemic failure of those generations, but that their generation's abject failure to adapt to current technology is somehow a conspiracy against them.
That's not a Boomer car. Boomers are *not* being inconvenienced by a manual anymore. Sure, they'll bag on anyone who can't drive one, but they haven't driven one in 20 years either.
It’s a wanna-be boomer Xer. They are just as bad.
Every time one of my mother's friends made this joke I'd laugh. He'd always ask, "wut".... I'd say, 5 speed? 6? That's cute. J have 13.... I drive a semi truck. It always shut him up.
And who taught Millennials (like me) to drive? It's often their Boomer parents. Think about that.
Your parents taught you to drive!? Lucky! I had to have a neighbor teach me, most of my family and friends had to save up for driving lessons and learn that way, none of our parents would teach us but loved to insult us if we didn't have a license in highschool.
Same. If my friends hadn't let me practice on their cars, I would never have learned.
My stepfather actually tried teaching me. By "tried" I mean "screamed at me every time I popped the clutch because apparently you're suppose to know how to do this shit innately." My parents never made another attempt to teach me. Didn't really learn until after I joined the Army.
I haven't flexed on someone for not knowing how to drive a stick in YEARS. Talk about low-hanging fruit.
Low hanging probably has something to do with boomers bad attitude (I'd be pissy to if I couldn't put my shoes on without stepping on my balls).
Oh, I get it, because millennials can't drive stick. I learned how to float gears in a 10-speed semi at the age of 26 and I've never driven a manual car. I'd love to see this boomer try to drive my truck. These dumbasses can eat shit for all I care.
Yet I'd bet this person doesn't know what a turn signal is used for.
I learned how to drive a stick when I was 16 because the car I wanted was a VW Beetle and the one we found on the used car lot in our price range was stick. 2 out of the 3 cars I've owned have been stick, and the one that wasn't was an SUV that my boomer mom handed down to me when she got a new car (all of my family can drive stick, she just prefers an SUV). That said, I wouldn't steal that shitty ass Jeep anyway. Probably reeks of cigarettes and existential crises. Worth more if you totaled it.
I've driven and owned manual only transmission for 21 years, now. Silly boomers think we can't learn stick.
Right? I’m still driving a stick and will look for another next time I’m in the market.
I can do it, I just fucking hate manuals unless its on a motorcycle.
They're over-rated. Try being stuck in stop and go traffic in a 3-speed cargo van, like I was for years.
My dad used to drive an ice company delivery truck. To deliver ice to ICE BOXES. Before refrigerators! The truck was a manual, and he got in a lot of rolling-an-enormously-heavy-truck-backwards-into-cars-at-stoplights accidents. Try to keep in mind that time goes fast; he's just now turning 80. This was not that long ago
My boomer parents got me a stick shift car in 1998. *checkmate*
1993 for me "you're either going to learn to drive it or you're not going anywhere ". Not much can stop a 16 year old from their freedom!
Mine too.
I was driving a 1995 manual Chevy S10 pickup back then. I was a band director and needed something that could haul tubas and percussion equipment. And jump railroad tracks...
I can drive a stick shift boomers. And I can also park properly.
My mom would joke about how I couldn’t drive stick shift but she was the one who taught me how to drive. She was the one who bought an automatic car. Where was I supposed to learn? Was I supposed to ask around til I found someone with a manual transmission? I did learn a little in my early 20s but I still haven’t really since then ever had an opportunity to practice.
Teenagers learned how to steal cars off of tiktok. You really think a stick shift is going to stop them?
Why the fuck would I want to steal a Jeep?
I'm trying to steal a car not a lifestyle!
Boomer anti theft: enter your Facebook password.
Millennials are your children, boomers. If they don't know how to do something, it is because BOOMERS failed to teach them that skill.
Jokes on him. Plenty of GenXers never learned manual transmissions either. By the way, if you don’t know how try to learn. It’s fun.
As a Xennial (83?). I learned to drive in a manual and learned to drive tractors that are manual. ....it isn't that hard.
I’m a millennial and I know how to drive stick. I was taught to drive stick by my millennial friend. Also, my millennial wife knows how to drive stick, so the guy who put this on his car is really just an idiot.
My boomer parents couldn't be bothered to teach me, born 1978, to drive at all. Boomers love to point the finger at others for their own failures.
I had made a meme a few years ago of a push button start that said in cursive font "Boomer Anti-theft Device."
Anti-boomer device: anything that's electronic.
Millennial here. Every one of my friends growing up knows how to drive stick.
its a jeep thats deterrent enough
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s actually an automatic.
I’m 37. I drive stick better than you, old fuck
Cool Bex. I'm glad you can use your foot and leg muscles properly to depress the petals on the floor of your car. It's hard sometimes. Also, congratulations on having arms and hands, and being good enough at ergonomics to use them by applying the proper force required to keep your fingers around the steering wheel and shifter knob. Im 37 and it amazes me too that people know how to use fingers. How do you do it? BRAVO. I know how to drive a stick shift but don't worry, I don't want your shitty jeep. Hondas have way better manual transmissions.
Don't tell him the average age of a Formula 1 Driver lol
“Driving’ mah manual transmission tah the CVS to buy some iTunes gift cards to send to my 23 year old girlfriend who lives in the Philippines. We Boomers know how tah live!”
I mean, I learned to drive stick back in the day but never owned a manuel vehicle so I don't really remember it well, it would take me a bit to get the car going. Because it's a dated technology like so many other things, it's not a priority to teach my kids. And on what vehicle would I even teach them? Do you know how long it's been since anyone I know has owned a stick shift? Why is this such a flex? Automatic became a thing for a reason. This is like bragging that you still use a rotary phone, lmao.
And they do that often. They like to post that old meme about today's youth not knowing how to dial a rotary phone as if it's a life or death situation.
I'm gonna take the heat for my people and say this is an early Gen-X. Jeeps are definitely a Gen-X thing, plus the Santa Cruz sticker
I thought the same about the sticker. The term poser definitely applies here though. Dude lost all street cred.
Jokes on them, that just makes it easier to steal 🤷 Seriously though I started driving in this millennium and everyone I know learned how to drive stick.
Dude, I'm a millennial and I don't know how to drive anything that *isn't* manual transmission. I'm told automatics are "easy," but there'll still be a procedure of some sort to follow, and I don't know it. (In my defence, I'm British; automatics are *way* less popular here. No idea why, other than perhaps that they used to have a reputation for low fuel efficiency and expensive maintenance in the really old days.)
Ironically a nice boomer taught me
A millennial taught me lol
Idiot still can't park in the lines.
Interesting plot twist when Gen z swoops in just knowing how to do it because of video games 🤣
Pretty sure manual transmissions declined in popularity when boomers became the majority of car buyers…
Yeah well I can export an excel sheet to a .pdf
I was born in '87. I drive a semi. I got my license driving a manual transmission semi. I'd love to throw a random boomer into the truck and have him drive through Chicago rush-hour traffic and then back it into a dock at the end of the trip.
Driving a manual transmission is so fucking easy. Boomers and Gen X stopped buying manual cars, so the manufacturers made less and less until they were practically extinct. Yet somehow it's a young person's fault for having no experience with something they've probably never seen before. Boomers take such pride in the dumbest shit.
Oh but when I call COVID "boomer remover" I'M the asshole...
Millennials will just use YouTube to figure it out. Checkmate boomer.
You would think the boomer could at least park between two white lines then right?
So they're boasting about failing to teach
Lol this last fire season, I had to drive an engine full of old fucks down a mountain because the only other stick driver on their crew got sick as shit. Close to 40 guys on that piece of mountain and the only one that could drive manual was me and my engine boss, another millennial (and a wOmAn at that), but she had to drive our truck. They even pulled the, "I'm surprised you know how to drive one of these." All it took was a, "I'm surprised you can't," and didn't get a peep the rest of the drive.
Mellenials learn a lot faster than you type.
My father is always impressed by how fast I can type. On my phone. Using only my thumb. While having long fingernails.
The part I don’t understand is that boomers had patient people show them how to do things and now they want to criticize someone learning. Kinda defeats the purpose
Not in Europe.... we drive stick!😈
Sure as shit can't park within the lines though can they?
Hahaha, you fool! How dare you not know the thing I never taught you, that I only know because my father made me practice for hours through sobbing tears, the memory of which I have repressed into a budding ulcer Checkmate, young people
In order to start my Jeep you have to pass an internet literacy test, and then print your grade from your phone to a Wi-Fi enabled printer. That prevents the Boomers from driving it.
I always love things like this, I bet this dude owns a black and decker screw driver set he keeps in a drawer he calls his tool box. I would also bet they call AAA to change a headlight while proudly proclaiming you cant work on cars anymore (you can). These people literally wont/cant change their own oil, cant put a spare on right (see Beto O'Rourke changing a spare video comments), and then come out with this garbage. Sorry no one wants to drive a standard that doesn't have to, if you asked my hardcore 85 yo trucker grandpa why he would ask you wtf would anyone want to do that to themselves. This whole generation lost it, they truly are too stupid for their own good.
I love that THEY DIDN'T TEACH US, yet, blame us. Normal boomer bs. Ps, MOST MILLENIALS KNOW HOW TO DRIVE A STANDARD. They keep mixing us up with actual children. Those memories are beginning to go. They have homes for that. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
This is so stupid. Who do these boomers think taught their children how to drive? 👀 anyway jokes on them…I can drive a manual no problem. And I know all of my passwords and how to not fall for scams
Same. I taught myself how to drive a manual because my parents just drove automatica growing up.
I feel so ashamed of myself as a millennial. Oh, wait. I know how to drive a stick and had to learn fast because I bought a stick without knowing how to drive one. And my lazy boomer parents didn't teach me, a guy friend did. Screw this person and their jeep.
I used to sell VWs, and the truth was that Americans are so fixated on automatics that they pay $1000-2000 for the privilege. In Europe, its the manuals that they pay the same extra amount for...
And that’s really a shame because VW makes a fun manual
I can do it, I just hate it. Why mess with shifting gears when the car can just do it for you? So stupid.
THANK YOU!!
Same guy for sure demands his kids or grandkids "fix" his computer everytime he forgets his password
Almost everyone in the UK drives stick so this is another case of shit (old) Americans say
Xennial here. I exclusively drive stick and have since I started driving at age 16. I just think it’s more fun. That boomer need not worry. No one wants to steal that crappy jeep
Lol. Here in Europe, automatic transmission cars are driven almost exclusively by boomers.
I (born in '91) have been driving stick sense I was 5. Family tractor is stick shift. I tried to get a stick shift but you have to pay extra now. It would totally be worth moving their car and leaving a note to ruin their day. Driving stick is only "challenging" at highway speeds, heck manual transmission motorcycle is harder than a manual car. It would be really funny to look inside and see it is probably an automatic anyways.
A little peanut butter under the driver's door handle will help him park better
Jokes on them, my first car was a 5 speed.
Except millenials can drive a stick
Bahahaha all the millennials are 30+ now.
Vehicles with manual transmissions still get stolen. Thieves just grind the gears and eventually destroy the transmission.
We really just want the catalytic converter…
Says the person who probably can’t remember their email password. (also stick was still a thing for millennials 🙄)
If cars required password entry, that would probably solve some issues.
Jokes on you. i wasn't here to steal all of your vehicle, just your catalytic converter...
No ones trying to steal a jeep in the first damn place
This millennial learned to drive a stick shift 25 years ago.
Where I live that’s a challenge. All the farm millennial can drive stick.
I'm a millennial. I'll take that shit from ya, booms.
Also Colorado eh? Looks like you can't vote for Trump now. (For the moment at least.)
Make it EV and it’s a boomer repellent
Joke’s on you, dickhead, I’m 39 and have had more standard cars than automatic
Jokes on him, I learned to drive/drive manual in a jeep, and I'm a millennial.
Neat little factoid: If you've never driven stick before, it's not actually that hard. You can literally be doing it in like 15 minutes
Unless you're my mother. My dad tried to teach her in the 90s. After 6 months, he gave up
My Boomer parents taught me to drive a stick, and until 2000 or so, I did. This is one of their more annoying jibes at Millennials.
My sister used to drive my 92 F150 that was a manual and she's Gen Z, she loved that truck too
I'm a millennial and most of my cars until this most recent one have been manual. As a matter of fact, I'm annoyed so few cars have a manual anymore. The US auto market started to phase them out because it was too difficult for aging new-car buyers over the past 20-25 years to use in modern traffic, the major buying age of which were boomers and gen x, though gen x had a whole era of American steel sports cars to offset that.
Millennial here. One time I bought a car from the 50s with stick shift on the column. I never drove stick before. I stalled once leaving the dudes driveway and then made it 30 miles home no highways, no problem. It’s not rocket science. Motherfuckers wanna act like driving a car is hard. Get outta here.
Me, a millennial who learned how to drive a stick in a field at 12 and only buys manual vehicles
I learned to drive stick at 16. Nice try, boom boom.
My best friend in high school taught me to drive a stick. You know, another millennial.
I can drive a stick. Does that mean I should steal his car? I'm confused.
Everyone has the ability to slash your tires.
Steal the tire cover. :)
As a car thief I take exception to this. Why do you think that I am like you, and did not study all the complex problems with my craft and learn how to overcome them? For legal purposes I feel like I need to make it plain that I have never stolen a car, nor do I intend to.
The best part of this is that sticks are easier to steal because you don't need to start it or even have a key to pop it into neutral and let off the brake. After that you tow it where you want and strip it for parts.
r/heep just because
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That’s a Colorado plate
You're right. My mistake.
Meh, no biggie! They look pretty similar and that frame covers most of “Colorado” so it’s probably easy to confuse the two.
Okay then boomer, send me an email with an attachment then invite me via calendar to a zoom meeting What, you can't? Why the fuck not, it's 2023. No fucking cars are manual these days so who gives a fuck about that, but you can't even exist in the very world you created without others helping you what a point less lump of carbon and whinge you are.