I bought the car the first Saturday in June (4th or 5th) and got my driver's license the 2nd week in August (I think it was the 11th) ... so about 2 months. My girlfriend took me out for a couple of weekends to practice in my car before I started driving lessons at CAA (Canadian branch of AAA) on an automatic. I used the 9th and 10th lesson for the test and to get the car back to their office since I didn't want to take the test on my car.

I figured I had enough to worry about during the test without shifting at the wrong times. :)

Thanks for sharing facts about YOU. The oyster part would have put me off. Have you ever tried sweetbreads. I was squicked when I learned what THAT was.

My mom used to make Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners like that. There were only six of us but my mom made enough for 12-16. She always forget to put a couple of dishes on the table but since there wasn't any room on the table to hold them, we had to switch things out at half time.