Mini-blog flog! Shift light?!
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So, this little part bugged me so much I had to say something!
LKH in italics, me in plain font
BTW this is my first blog flog, and I'm not particularly funny......
Link to LKH Blog
LKH in italics, me in plain font
BTW this is my first blog flog, and I'm not particularly funny......
Link to LKH Blog
I could hear the engine when it needed to shift.
Congratulations. Your point?
There is no shift light on this car, but I didn't need it.
Now I get it. Shift light? Seriously woman, you bought a fancy sports car and you need a shift light? That car is wasted on you!
I could hear it, feel it, in the engine, from the pedals, to my hand, up my spine. You can just feel when it needs to shift.
Please, oh please do not have Anita getting it on in a Mustang in the next book. I love those cars and I can't take it if Anita humps the gear shift. This woman can ruin anything! Besides, I've never been in a manual transmission car where I couldn't feel when it needed to shift. Hell, I can feel when my automatic needs to shift.
The one thing I can't "feel" yet, is how quick to let up on the clutch and how much gas to give when going from stop to go again. I don't "feel" that yet. Jon says, I'll get there. I will, but it is the one thing I can't understand with my body. This car is the first car I've ever owned that talks to my body, my skin, my hands . . . When I described it as having a heartbeat I wasn't really joking. Maybe all the muscle cars, or at least all the Mustangs are like that, but all I know is that it feels amazing.
You understand the car with your body? It talks to your skin? I don't think anyone else could have come up with that poorly used metaphor. Just you, 'cause you're so speshul! For the safety of others, please use you head when driving. Please? Oh, and cars don't have heartbeats (they're not alive).
Congratulations. Your point?
There is no shift light on this car, but I didn't need it.
Now I get it. Shift light? Seriously woman, you bought a fancy sports car and you need a shift light? That car is wasted on you!
I could hear it, feel it, in the engine, from the pedals, to my hand, up my spine. You can just feel when it needs to shift.
Please, oh please do not have Anita getting it on in a Mustang in the next book. I love those cars and I can't take it if Anita humps the gear shift. This woman can ruin anything! Besides, I've never been in a manual transmission car where I couldn't feel when it needed to shift. Hell, I can feel when my automatic needs to shift.
The one thing I can't "feel" yet, is how quick to let up on the clutch and how much gas to give when going from stop to go again. I don't "feel" that yet. Jon says, I'll get there. I will, but it is the one thing I can't understand with my body. This car is the first car I've ever owned that talks to my body, my skin, my hands . . . When I described it as having a heartbeat I wasn't really joking. Maybe all the muscle cars, or at least all the Mustangs are like that, but all I know is that it feels amazing.
You understand the car with your body? It talks to your skin? I don't think anyone else could have come up with that poorly used metaphor. Just you, 'cause you're so speshul! For the safety of others, please use you head when driving. Please? Oh, and cars don't have heartbeats (they're not alive).
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Date: 2007-12-03 12:27 am (UTC)And now I've broken my brain.
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Date: 2007-12-02 10:44 pm (UTC)This is why I drive automatics. Get in and go.
Oh, and I might perv over the ultimate car stereo system, or, like a Testerosa, but...yeah. I might shiver from the hotness of the car, but she scares me.
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Date: 2007-12-02 11:18 pm (UTC)Seriously. If she puts any form of car!sex in her books I will fucking lose it.
I will burn every book I find that has that in there.
I refuse to allow her to disgrace my favourite car/character of the movie. >:(
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Date: 2007-12-03 01:58 am (UTC)And you -know- Anita and/or Merry are going to be getting new cars in the near future. you just know it. Personally, it sounds like your typical "masculine" mid-life crisis to me.
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Date: 2007-12-02 11:19 pm (UTC)ETA: Someone please cut her subscription to BBC America, lest the Vicar of Dibley or the Torchwood cast or the Doctor end up as characters in her poor excuse for smut. (Please think of the pterodactyls!).
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Date: 2007-12-03 12:08 am (UTC)i dont know. i drive an automatic. and don't have a pornographic relationship with my vehicle.
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Date: 2007-12-03 12:45 am (UTC)I can understand being delighted with a powerful car (I have moments of SQUEE when mine really starts purring), but eeeek.
I'm kind of surprised she didn't go with one of the more phallic-looking sports cars. I could totally see her in a restored 280ZX -- it'd totally fit with her motif of being stuck in the 80's, too.
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Date: 2007-12-03 01:40 am (UTC)My sister later let me drive her car and laughed at me when I asked where the clutch was.
My sisters are much better at driving a standard then I could ever attempt. I just don't have enough hands and feet to do it.
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Date: 2007-12-03 02:50 am (UTC)Yes iddums, you take your foot off the accelerator and you put it on the clutch and then you shift the gear and then you put your foot back on the accelerator and OH WOW THE CAR IT THEN GOES.
Next, LKH will bring us FIYAH and help us leave the dismal caves we've been living in all these years.
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Date: 2007-12-03 08:20 am (UTC)She sounds like this guy I read about in "Strange Sex," who developed an unhealthy sexual obsession with his car. I think she's trying to be sensual and DEEEEEEEEP, but no matter how thrilling a car is or how you feel, it's weird to hear about feeling it up your spine, and talking to your skin and body, and ewk ewk ewk "all the muscle cars."
I'm just shocked she isn't rhapsodizing about the long, thick, smooth, perfect tailpipe, so shiny, so erect, so alluring. Bleeeeeccccchhhh.... please, God, don't let there be a car in Whorenita's future.
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Date: 2007-12-03 03:12 pm (UTC)And Anita will be stroking the stick suggestively, just the way she plays with Nathaniel's braid, thinking that it makes her sound like a freak in a good way.
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Date: 2007-12-05 09:54 am (UTC)They have a cure for those shift lights. It's called a screwdriver. You can pop the dash plastic up a bit, then jam the screwdriver where the light was real hard, and all of a sudden, it's dead.
The correct instrument to watch for when to shift (if you need one) is the RPM gauge, but fer chrissakes, anyone who drives a shift learns to feel it. This is only an accomplishment along the lines of learning to budget or plan a vacation itinerary for yourself.
It's sad that LKH is so sheltered she thinks every mundanity of her every day life is worth bragging about.
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