My car is asking for a technical service

On a regular (better: normal) day I drive the my car for 12 km to go and come to my work and back to my home twice a day (I like to eat at home).

During the last few weeks I was (better: have been) using the car in a non regular an unusal way, sometimes ("sometimes" is one word) I was driving up to 200 km because of to attend some meetings in other city.

My car is now asking for some technical service  but because I don't have a second car so I don't know when I will be able to take it to a mechanic. stop the car soon.

During those trips a lot of thoughts came into my head. A recurrent one was "wouldn't it be nice to have an automatic gearbox" (or: transmission)

I know that in other countries, the default gearbox to have is an automatic one, but here it the default gearbox (this is repetitive) is a manual gearbox.

People here think that the automatic cars are slow, expensive to maintain and made for the ladies.

Last year, a friend let me drive their automatic car for 100 km crossing the hills and lakes. This was fantastic, very relaxing and more safer because I had one less thing to think about. take care of.

I hope that my next car will have has an automatic gearbox.

Well done Cristian!  In North America most of the cars have automatic transmissions and all the young people learn to drive using this type.  I think this is wrong as most of the rest of the world drives cars with manual transmissions and these new drivers are unable to drive these cars.  We have 2 cars, one automatic and one manual and I drive the manual one almost exclusively.  I find that I never have to think what gear to use as the response is just automatic on my part!

There is less that can go wrong with a manual transmission as automatics are very expensive to repair and manuals are better with gas consumption.