[san rensho]

I cringe at valets. Too many stories of idiots who don't know how to drive a stick and frying the clutch.

I avoid like the plague any American kid valets. American kids now a days don't drive and if they do, they've never seen a stick. In fact, one of e best anti theft devices is a stick. The idiots get about a block before hey abandon the car because they don't know how to drive it.

So if I have to valet, I make sure the guy is Hispanic and speaks no English. That means he grew up in Latin America, where most cars are sticks, and he knows what he is doing. And then I tip generously.