LoL!
Come to think of it, my wife swore by her manual VW Rabbit for the same reason.
She offered to teach me, but I was too afraid I would blow something.
Mine always said it too hard to reach around and smack the kids cause you had to stop and shift.
A few years ago, I had to move 600 miles away. My family hadn’t arrived yet and I got kidney stones a couple days before Christmas. Ocycodone was doing wonderful things but I was afraid to fly home in case I had an attack. My uncle decided he’d fly in and drive me home.
I had to teach him to drive a stick while passing stones. Yep, that was fun.