Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

My favourite 'oops' is jumping out of a manual back into an auto, and
attempting to declutch at the first junction I come to. Certainly gets
the attention of whoever's behind me!

My most spectacular "oops" was when I'd been driving a Mercedes C200 for
a couple of weeks (courtesy car while my A4 was being repaired... after
some oxygen thief from Pakistan who had a slightly poorer grasp of the
Highway Code than the English language slammed into me on a roundabout,
writing his car off and doing about £5k worth of damage to mine - all
cosmetic I might add)... which was an automatic. Got back into mine, was
on the way down to Bristol to meet the then-gf... came off the sliproad
at the M4/M32 interchange, lights were red, braked to stop at the
lights... thunk stalled it.

Of course, 2 weeks of driving a toy and I'd forgotten to put the clutch
down.

Being a diesel, and being on a downhill slope, not a problem. Declutch
quick-smart, put it into second, bring the clutch up, restarts. Then
declutch, brake, neutral.

I did a couple of times try and stick it in first without putting the
clutch down, but within a couple of hours I was used to manual again.
Not sure if the A4 has syncromesh on first, but it wouldn't go in
without putting the clutch down (so I'm guessing that's a no then).

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