Help me get familiar with Familiarity

[Dexion]

It is true that the time to adapt to new equipment can vary from one case to another. And even in some cases never come. This is my experience with some weapons that I have tried to familiarize myself with on a regular basis but never succeeded. On the other hand with some I spent a day at the stand and I immediately hooked.
This is really where the experience and the feeling play out.

[Philomath]

My favorite way to explain this (except to the people who don't drive) is to draw analogy to a new car. Driving a friend or family member's car just feels weird. All the stuff is in the wrong place, you don't know how to turn on the lights without taking a second or three to look, the brakes are too sensitive or not sensitive enough, etc. Heaven forbid it's an automatic when you're used to a manual transmission. After a few hours of driving you get used to it and don't have to look for the radio buttons or how to adjust the heater.

If you regularly drive several different car models, maybe from a fleet provided by your job, you are likely to have driven one similar enough that a particular new to you car doesn't feel too weird.

[Þorkell]

Originally Posted by Philomath

Heaven forbid it's an automatic when you're used to a manual transmission.

The other way around is harder.

[Philomath]

Originally Posted by Þorkell

The other way around is harder.

Yeah. That's why I use what I use. Slapping your foot down on the floorboard where a clutch should be and putting the car into neutral instead of shifting is certainly one of those familiarity things I've been guilty of more than once.