Alan and I are having a disagreement right now. I just watched Army Wives and Claudia Joy was teaching her daughter how to drive a stick shift.

I don't drive, so please don't shoot me.

She used her hands and she said 'the right hand is the gas pedal, you depress that and you'll hear a revv kind of sound.

"The left hand is the clutch. You pull back on the clutch to change gears". So I'm listening and I turn to Alan (I had my headphones on so he didn't hear what I was hearing)

So I said "Alan, I just leaned how the clutch works on a car when you drive a stick shift". He said "do tell".

I said 'well, you use your right leg for the gas, your left leg for the brake, and your left hand to depress and pull back on the clutch, when you want to change gears.

He said "you're out of your mind, you use your LEFT LEG TO PRESS DOWN ON THE CLUTCH".

I then said; "how can you use your left leg if Claudia Joy just said: 'pull back on the clutch".


Alan said "it's a pedal and you pull back by lifting your foot up.

Now I just went on the internet and they are talkinga bout Pedal Arms.

So who is right and who is wrong.

Anybody out there drive a stick shift?? Is the clutch something you use with your left hand or your left foot.

Or are there different types of clutches??

Thanks much. (and save me from bopping him on his head).

lol