Comment Re:Stick driving requires some discipline (Score 1) 182
Paying attention to stick shifts is something done by people who only very rarely drive them. For people who drive stick shifts daily they don't think about them at all, it's just a natural reaction.
And even people who don't drive stick regularly (but know how) quickly stop having to pay attention. I haven't owned a stick shift since the mid 90's, but I often get them when renting cars overseas. It takes a day or two of paying attention, and then it just becomes automatic and effortless.
there was no clutch. I just kicked the footwell for no reason.
BTDT when coming home from a trip where I'd been driving a manual for a couple of weeks.