Dave,

Once upon a time in parts of this country (Canada) if you took your drivers examination (road test) in an automatic, you were only licensed to drive an automatic.  If you tested in a manual, you were licensed to drive both.

On 11-Sep-2015, at 21:06, Dave Mcneely wrote:

> ---- eve Appleton <appleton_eve@YAHOO.COM> wrote: 
>> 
> i never touched an auto transmission until the age of 35 when i came to America. It's my personal opinion, learning to drive stick >should be manditory to getting a license. (That n parallel parking.) Auto is just too easy and convenience corrupts the mind.
> 
> Though I agree with you, concerning both the stick shift and the parallel parking, since both are going the way of the dodo, our opinions aren't worth much.