it's REALLY fun to run through the gears with your arm hooked through the steering wheel.
i "learned" that by myself when i had a job at the local truck stop as a "pump jockey", a few years before i started my machinist career in 1973.
part of the job was to park the trucks in the lot after a guy fueled them up and serviced them. i had never driven a tractor-trailer unit before.
my boss said to me : "you can drive a stick in a car right ? well, a truck just has more sticks !"
well, alrighty then !