I love music, especially really good "Inde Folk" music. Yes, I did just make up that genre, but it should actually exists. So here I am, on my way home to have lunch, singing in my best (still horrible) voice to the Lumineers. Getting right to the good part of the song, where you can just feel his emotion pouring from the radio "Love......we need it now" (you know the part) when my car suddenly lurches forward. What the........I must have just been rear ended. The clear, obvious reason for you car to suddenly get slung into a forward motion, right? My eyes dart up to my rear view mirror, simultaneously glad Aida is not in the car with me, to find nothing behind me??? Confused by the lack of a vehicle now attached to my rear bumper, it dawns on me......
If one happens to be driving a manual transmission car and said car is in gear, then it is imperative that you keep the clutch pressed in. And if one happens to release said clutch without the gear shift being in neutral, then said car will suddenly lurch forward, which feels very similar to being slightly rear ended.
While deeply committed to my rendition of "Ho Hey" it must have slipped my mind that I wasn't in my automatic car. So after my embarrassing glance around the intersection, I restarted the car and kept on singing!
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