Driving Guilt

The Ultimate Driving Machine has been in the shop for a few days having it's wiring worked on so I've been motoring around in a loaner. The loaner is the same model as my UDM just a couple years newer, a beautiful Oxford Green, and an automatic. I've always maintained if one is going to drive a sports car it must be a manual. I've driven manuals all my life and always had some disdain for the automatic. So when I sat in the lovely green loaner I expected it to be somewhat disappointing. But I liked it. Just tap the gas and it goes, acceleration was great, and backing up - so much easier. You can just drive no worrying about clutch and remembering to shift. I have the UDM back and on the whole it's a better car, all the options and the shifting it just is more me. The automatic was sort of like being on vacation, I'll look forwad to the next time.