How To Move a Porche 30 Feet

The theater I work at with Rob is sponsored in part by the local Porche dealer (Because it's Connecticut, after all...) To adversise, they slap a few classy posters on a 2007 Porche and park it right outside the entrance during performances. Price tag: $65,000. It's gorgeous.

It was sitting where the band needed to park their van to load equipment in, and since I was the only person around who (sorta) knew how to drive stick, I had to move it. So, with everyone watching me (and making fun of how I was going to crash it), I slipped into the drivers seat and gingerly started the car. It purrrrrrrrrred. I want one. Now.

It took me a while to get it going, partly because I'm out of practice and partly because the seat was set so far back I couldn't reach the clutch that well (and I wasn't about to start fiddling with the seat, either.) I poked at the gas with one toe, very gently, and it lurched forward and died with a huge BAM! I screamed.

So did everyone else, except Rob, who laughed at me (rotten guy).

After four trys (shut UP! it's HARD!) I got the car, worth five times more than my life, safely moved into a parking space thirty feet away. Now that I know how to drive it, I'm taking a spin around the block next time.