Been driving a manual transmission for years. I learned in high school and haven't owned a car with an automatic transmission for ... 20 years?

That said though, my next one is going to be an automatic. My S-10 is a manual and it's not the slamming-through-the-gears-dropping-350-hp-to-the-ground fun that my previous cars were. It's become more of a chore pushing that asthmatic little truck through the gears. So it's time to take the work out of it and get an automatic.