Ze Monologue

There’s nothing like owning your own set of wheels. I don’t know about any of you guys but I always get this great feeling whenever I get into my car to drive somewhere. To paraphrase Bernie Mac from Transformers your first car is your first enchilada of freedom. I’ve had a love for cars ever since I was a little kid and I still go to the car show at the Javitts Center every year. I don’t know what it is about them. Is it the looks? Is it the speed? The power? I guess it’s different for everybody. Some people just view cars as methods of getting from point a to point b, others might view it as a way of showing off how loaded they are, but for me…a car is a way for someone to escape their daily lives. There’s nothing stopping you from just getting in your car and driving till the wheels fall off. Its more than just a machine, it’s almost like a personification of who the person you are. You know what I mean? Anyway, If there’s one thing that I can’t stand about cars, it’s the automatic transmission in some of them. You know the one that says Drive, Reverse, Neutral and so on? I think that people who drive automatic transmissions are either lazy, or just ignorant. Lazy because they just want to sit in the car and press their foot, and ignorant because they don’t know about the other options. I think that the only REAL cars have manual transmissions. For those of you that don’t know, a car that has a manual transmission has three pedals instead of two and the stick in the middle has to be constantly moved in between gears. To put it in really basic terms, YOU have complete control over the car, so it won’t go anywhere if you don’t know how to drive it. I think that this is way better than automatic cars because i don’t know about you guys, but i don’t need a computer to tell me when i should shift gears, i can do that myself. Also, driving a manual car is loads more fun than an automatic car. You can do burnouts, slides, peel outs, they’re more fuel efficient and their faster. Plus there’s nothing better than the feeling you get when you put the car into 1st gear, build up the revs, let go of the clutch and burn some rubber. But thats just me. Anyway, if there’s anything you can take from this rant, it’s to try new experiences. This is college after all, live a little…you just might like it.