Learning to drive... again (sort of)

Yeah... picked up my new car from the dealer yesterday. First time I have driven a stick shift in well over 10 years - and I'll level with you: I was never that well-practiced at it before.
After a humiliating start (yes I was that jackass on Plains Road in the middle of Saturday afternoon), everything slowly began to pull together.

Drove my mother to drop a package off in Oakville. Mistake - my mother has rarely been comfortable with my drving in an automatic - the experience of riding with a novice stick shift jockey did nothing to calm her nerves.

Drove back to Toronto on the Lakeshore, made it without incident, though I gave the RIDE program out on Lorne Park something to laugh at.

At the end of the road, Iw as manoeuvering into a praking spot, doing the olde reverse-forward-reverse-forward... yeah I stalled out about a half dozen times.
That was embarassing. Then I got lazy and just snagged a spot further down the road.

Next week, the highway run...