I'm from the states and I know how to drive stick. Do you have an issue?

No one in America calls it the states

In America you do have to practice with a licensed driver for like 25 hours before you can take the drivers test if you are under eighteen. If you are over eighteen when you take the drivers test for the first time though you don't always need the proof of driving practice. However, unlike other countries if a person is licensed to drive an automatic car they do not have to get a new license to drive manual. Also the OP said it was their first time driving their new manual car by themselves but that does not mean it is their first time driving a manual car in general.

Actually its 50 hours, I was part of the first group of people with that law...

Yeah it's the same in America, but in my state when I had my permit I needed a minimum of 50 hours and I got close to 200

^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ This.

You're ridiculous. Have you not been reading? Depending on the car you drive, you CAN lurch forward when you stall. Especially if it's a particularly bad stall, ie. way too much gas, not enough clutch. I drive stick, and the first several times I stalled, I lurched forward. Don't be a douche simply for the sake of being a douche. Rudeness doesn't make people like you, or your lame comments.

@ #71, I believe #26 said the car doesn't lurch far enough forward to hit someone else. That is true. It also doesn't lurch your car SIDEWAYS into someone else's car. Use common sense!

Well considering she was clearly intending to race I am imagining she had it way revved up and dropped the clutch. In a FWD if she broke the tires loose it would have slid the front end sideways at which point she probably let off the gas, stalling it, but apparently not in time to avoid a collision. That is the only way I can picture this happening, although with RWD she could have slid her ass end into the car next to her as well.

@81, I never said anything about the damn car lurching sideways, did I? For all I know, that's made up. But yes, you can in fact lurch into someone's car. If you pull up too close to someone at a light, it happens. Stalling out can push your car anywhere from three inches to a couple feet. Don't be a bitch. Common sense can be outweighed by experience. I've driven stick, I've stalled, I've lurched forward. Get off my ass.

Hey, hard core chick.... do me??? but what i was gonna say is that u give it more gas to keep from stalling soo WAY too much would KEEP it from stallin.... it wouldnt be too good on the clutch or anything else but it wouldnt stall it.... i dont believe u drive a stick, but ill allow u to use mine for some practice...

That was my thought exactly since apparently their car was positions so that it could lurch forward into the person next to them.

positioned*

Damn disappearing, reappearing comments. That positioned* is a correction to one of my own comments.