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HOW TO: When I went camping last summer and my friend told me we could take his dad’s truck I didn’t think twice about it be a stick shift. That is until we swerved off a rural dirt road and got a flat tire. We were just about finished changing the tire when the jack slipped and fell onto my friend’s leg. He ended up just being able to ice it for a few hours but that was after we got to the campsite. He wasn’t able to drive because of his leg injury, so naturally I had to jump behind the wheel. I had seen a stick shift been done many of times but never drove one. Manual transmissions are a lot of times a good way to go when buying a car or truck. Stick shifts are better on gas mileage then an automatic. They are also a less expensive option when purchasing a new vehicle. It is not very hard to drive a stick shift, and when you get used to it you don’t even realize your driving with bo