On Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:58:50 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

Ken Blake on Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:28 -0700
typed in alt.windows7.general the following:

But when I'm having to stop what I've done for a long time, to
find out where/how to do it "here" - it throws me out. Very much like
getting a new car, and the light switch and wiper controls are
"backwards." Do not tell me that it is 'better'.



Better or not, to me, it's the same thing. Every time I've gotten a
new car, it took me only a few minutes to learn the difference from my
old one. Even if I rent a car, I get comfortable with its controls
very quickly.

And muscle memory - where you automatically reach (because for the
last ten years, that is where it was), and in the new car, it isn't
there. Ever stall a car out, because you forgot about the clutch
(Your regular car not having one), and in the 'emergency' you didn't
have time to think about it?



No, but I've stalled rental cars in Europe simply because it had been
so long since I drove a car with a clutch.

But that reminds me of my favorite car rental story--about the time
(1983 or so) I drove a rented car to Erice, on top of a mountain in
western Sicily. I parked the car and went into the hotel across the
street where we had a reservation. The next morning (it was Christmas)
it was cold, and we got into the car to leave Erice.

I ground the starter multiple times and it rumbled and rumbled, but
wouldn't start.

My wife said "pull out the choke." I grumbled at her, "that's
ridiculous! Cars haven't had manual chokes in years."

She opened the glove compartment, pulled out the owner's manual,
pointed to a picture, and asked "what's this."

It was labeled with a name, but it was an Italian word I didn't know,
and that's what I said.

She said "pull it out and see what happens."

I did. It started right up.