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

[dwg.livejournal.com]

I don't even drive, but I know what an engine sounds like when it needs to shift. Then again, my family have only ever owned manuals and I get snooty around automatics.

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.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

If she brings us fire it'll probably be in the form of elemental porn for Merry. I only hope that if Merry does end up with a fire elemental she shaves because otherwise that's going to smell o_0