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

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

Re: Disclaimer: I know not everyone can drive stick.

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I passed driver's ed at 14 1/2 (I lived in Montana, where you could have a license at 15, if you took the course, because we needed to drive hay trucks and stuff), but didn't actually get my license until I was a month or two shy of 24 (so, uh, earlier this year). I couldn't afford the car and insurance, anyway, so it was pretty pointless to have one.

I took my first driving test in a minivan. The instructor made me parallel park between a cop car and a Camaro. I still have nightmares about it, but damned if I'm not a fantastic parallel parker. XD


BECAUSE LOOKING COOL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EARTH-AWARENESS. Were she truly aware, she would stop writing and spare the small forests destroyed every time she decides to publish another handful of crap.