The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. - Marcel Proust-
oddly enough, i realized earlier as i was driving back to school for the second time of the day that i am still a manual driver at heart... it's been five years since i've driven one for more than ten minutes, but on a regular basis i still:
rest my right hand on the center gear shift... when i drive a car with the shifter up by the wheel i always am unsure what to do with my hand...
i always drive and do all my turning with my left hand because my right one is otherwise occupied with its resting (see previous one)...
i keep my left knee bent more so that i keep my left foot away from the brake pedal (on more than one occassion i have tried to clutch with my brake)...
and i have also, on more than one occassion, forgotten that the car will drift forward by itself because it's in drive, not neutral...
i tried for about five minutes today to switch all this up when it became so obvious to me and it felt so weird i almost swerved into another lane. i just have to accept that i'm a manual driver at heart...
leaving for savannah in two days... the city is built on the dead, or so i hear.
