Originally Posted by
USAZorro
I'm 50 and would stall 20 times on the way to the grocery store with a standard transmission. My 23 year old daughter and 18 year old son, hate driving anything that's automatic. Strange world these days.
Maybe your bicycle maintenance has instilled in them the value and pleasure of manually controlling their world. Or maybe something in the air, some unspoken meme is hinting that we should start controlling machines.
Global warming and oil crisis is growing the idea in the back of our minds that one day we'll have to use our hands to find food and survive. Just look at that movie with Will Smith hunting deer in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan.
Maybe in the smallest ways, kids are going to develop a tendency to want to train themselves to have better manual control over their environment.