driving a stick wasn't a novelty?
When you had to turn on your headlights?
When turning on/off the brights required stepping on a button with your left foot and had to roll down your window with a crank?
Was looking at a Jeep today and my daughter asked if it was "one of the old ones where you have to learn to drive a different way."
What have we done?

I remember it well....

Some plowed mules.

Yep, I'm that old.

Dad knew how to turn an engine over with a crank, and had a couple of antique cars with a crank hole right underneath the radiator to prove it. I never got the knack. Somethin' about "do it wrong and it'll break your arm" might have had something to do with it.

And tractors without an AC cab.

I'm 29 and my first pick up had all of the above. It wasn't that long ago.

To be fair, I dated a girl from Peru in 2003 that complained about having "to learn" to drive an automatic.

Did I ever tell you about my first John Deer tractor and the Memphis girl in a mini skirt wearing bekini panties?

I remember having to adjust the antennas (rabbit ears) on the TV, and they had foil on them.
And then you had to get up and turn the knob on the TV to try the one other channel, and then turn the outer knob to tune it better.

Don’t forget the push button presets on the radio.

Who remembers the starter button on the floor board?

Remember it all well. My friend had his nephew in his 65 chev and he was looking for the electric switch to roll the window down.

Had one

Remember my daddy starting the old Poppin Johnny with the flywheel.

Sadly , I remember using all of those things. Except maybe the flywheel.

Dangit, I must be getting old.

I do....
My first car...1947 Dodge...…
My, how I wish, I still had it.....

I remember all that stuff.

That came after the many trips to Eckerds with dad to test tubes and select the right replacement from the drawers and box underneath.

I have a '69 Bug that I still have to do all that in....

My daughter wanted a car with a stick so that she would learn how to dive one. It turned out to be a blessing because she's the only one that drove her car none of her friends could drive a stick.

Both vehicles we own are stick shift. One has daytime running lights but neither have lights that automatically come on when it’s dark.

Three on the tree.