Mini-blog flog! Shift light?!

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

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

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).

Comments

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Um... cars have lights to tell you when to shift now? Pffft. May as well get an automatic. *learned to drive on a '67 Karmann-Ghia*

[denouement16.livejournal.com]

I've never been in one with a shift light, but I hear they're out there :D

[amamelina.livejournal.com]

Is that what a shift light was? I just thought it had less calories then a regular shift.

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, too!

[plum-arden.livejournal.com]

An ex-bf of mine had a Ford Escort with one. He said the thing was useless. I always either go roughly by speed or listen to the engine.