This is really shameful I'm even answering this. I was a "popular" kid. The people I went to prom and homecoming with were the kings and queens, we partied in mansions on the weekends, our lunch table was typical popular cheerleaders and football players and lacrosse players and tennis players. My high school was similar to what you see in the movies, graduating class of 1,000+ students with predominately affluent upper and middle class families. The people that were my friends were mostly vapid privileged kids with powerful parents who it felt like the school catered to. Being associated with them did wonders for how teachers treated me, what my experience was like day to day, and also did nothing good for my ego. I constantly felt like an outsider. While my best friend was getting a brand new candy red Mercedes on her 16th birthday, I scrounged up money working as a waitress and bought a falling apart truck that my mom made me buy stick shift(so uncool mom!) When prom dress shopping I would go with my girl friends and I would never buy a dress with them, I'd go with my mom later and buy whatever was on sale. If my friends wanted to go on overseas trips, or cruises, they wouldn't want to leave me behind so their parents would pay for me. I would never bring my friends to my mom's house because I felt almost embarrassed bringing them there. Can you believe that? Stuff like that was really weird growing up and I look back on it and it doesn't really feel like it was me at all. I can't believe I shared this.
Eh, sometimes some pretty darn personal stuff gets posted around here. Question, if you found this elsewhere (Reddit, Hackernews, etc.) do you think you would have shared it? I'm just curious. I can't even imagine most of what you said. My class was ~300 people, with about 1000 people TOTAL between grades 9 and 12. There weren't any really upper class people, certainly not people with mansions or getting Mercedes on their sweet 16. I guess it has to exist somewhere though. Oh yeah, I was on prom court junior year and my friends were king and queen senior year. Went through that fun stuff too.
Well since I'm new here, I felt a little more free to divulge this story. If I were on any of those other platforms? Probably not. I really like it here too, so I'm just sharing what I can that's relevant and exploring and learning. I'm sure I'll regret posting that at some point haha I'm happy that I'm not the only person that's gotten personal or over shared(I'm bound to do that at least once...) I noticed though.. No personal share link of your own! Are you more reserved in your reveals, ButterflyEffect?
Well I'm glad you did, it was a good read. People are generally open about things here, which is why I was comfortably posting this. Personal share link? The comment I linked to above links to this post I made a couple months back that's pretty darn personal. Know why I made that post? Because I value what everyone that commented has to say and know they would say things that mattered more than what a lot of my friends were saying in person. To answer your question, not really.
It's certainly useful, like onetime someone I knew got his car stuck and I was able to maneuver it while everyone else pushed. For me though, Stick is just extra stuff to do while driving, drinking a coffee on your morning commute is not easy while worrying about gear changes and all that jazz. Also, stop and go traffic, my foot would get tired from constantly holding down the clutch. I learned not to wear sandals and drive stick because I once got my sandal wedged between the clutch and that was pretty much one of the scariest moments ever driving. Are you a stick fan?