You're of the male gender and can't drive stick? I though it was encoded in our DNA!
Along with a love of beer, unburned hydrocarbons, and big lifted trucks!
I learned to drive stick when I was 16. It wasn't so much of learning, as just jumping in the car and driving. It felt totally natural, almost like I already knew how to do it. I killed the car once only, and that was on a steep hill from a dead stop. But I used to live on a nice steep hill so I learned that one REAL quick.