Maybe I'm a perfectionist, but I've encountered a few dancers who don't know how to drive a stick shift. In this day and age you would think most would acquire this basic skill and work it to perfection, but a few, I've noticed, are either lazy or lackluster. Again, maybe I'm expecting too much perfection, but have you ever noticed these problems?
Dancer stays in nettral too long, no progress toward the destination.
Dancer goes through the gears too fast, a rough, dangerous ride with little time to enjoy the scenery.
Dancer has no respect for factory installed equipment and sometimes tries to unscrew the shifter knob or worse, yank the entire stick shifter from it's linkage.
I prefer a smooth shifting of the gears and for the dancer to understand the proper shifting pattern. Some dancers don't even bother to inquire about the shifting pattern.
Fortunately, there are many dancers who know the proper way to use a stick shift. Maybe they should talk about that amoung themselves instead of all the other drama we know they get into.
This is not to say that I don't appreciate dancers who make the effort to drive a stickk shift withoute proper skills, in fact, I respect their efforts. For the sake of all of us, dancers--you can't get better unless you get out and drive more. Practice makes perfect. But close is still good in this case.
I had a dancer yesterday at Columbia PP, that although she was gorgeous, and enthuisiastic, she obviously had no clue on how to stick shift. I was getting dances at 2 for $30 so I can't complain too much, but I could see it was going to get expensive so we stopped at 2. I didn't see the benefit of having the stick shifter shaft ripped out of my body.