It can be even worse
I drive two cars. One has a normal gearlever in the middle and a normal handbrake between the front seats. The other has a column change and the handbrake just in front of the driver's door, by my right knee. It's fine as long as I don't think about it, but any attempt at cognition while driving tends to leave me a gibbering wreck, immobile in front of a line of hooting cars while I start with "I think, therefore I am", work my way through the existence of rice pudding and income tax and then try to remember about hill starts.
(ubergeekian, Fri 22 Mar 2013, 9:18, Reply)