yeah, I can drive a stick. In fact, I much prefer it to an automatic, because the automatic doesn't know as much about what is going on as I do. It makes its decisions for me, often incorrectly, based on faulty or incomplete information. (like "feelings"...) and that annoys me....
W commented recently about how reading about personality types has shown her how she can sometimes act like an automatic transmission...drawing the wrong conclusions from few facts and misleading "feelings". like my benign comment on the weather is actually NOT a critique of her parenting skills or value as a person.