my new subaru theory

i traded cars with jeff today. i got to drive his early 90's subary legacy wagon. i needed to haul out a powerboat and my car doesn't have the balls to pull it up the ramp. i nearly burned his clutch out, but i did it. anyway, i noticed how the shifter always just floats back to the middle and there's no way to tell if it's in gear by looking at it. When you shift, it feels like you're really just poking about randomly, but nevertheless, it's in gear and it's totally cool. I didn't miss a shift, but i felt like i was just jiggling the stick. considering that all the people i know that have driven with subaru stick shifts for a while, have attitudes and personalities akin to that stick shift. They just poke around randomly completely confident that they're in the right gear, and rarely have reason to believe otherwise. It's strange what sorts of thoughts you have after sitting in traffic for hours.