Fun story about me and manual transmissions: I learned to drive on a MT but didn't drive one at all after that. Went through years of driving only AT cars. Friends and my ex-fiance made me drive stick now and then because they thought it was funny. Lots of stalls etc.
Cut to 2009 and I decide to buy a Z and basically said "yeah no, not doing AT, we're going to learn MT right here and now".
Took delivery of the car and the sales guy hopped in to take it to the gas station with me to fill it up. The gas station was about 2 blocks from the dealership. I start to get in the passenger's seat and the guy goes "no wait, what? This is your car, you drive"...
Sooooo after the 3rd time I stalled it on the way to the station, the sales guy does a really slooooow turn from the passenger seat to stare at me at which point I go "GOD I'M SORRY" and he goes "uh, no buddy. It's your car. You don't need to apologize".
For a while I would avoid roads which involved stopping on steep inclines at lights because I was afraid I would roll backwards into someone. I vividly remember waving people around me once or twice.
Then I got the hang of it and everything was fine
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That is until I melted the entire clutch assembly into slag by 9k miles
Nissan replaced it free of charge (clutch, flywheel, everything) because there was "just no way that could have been due to abuse at only 9k miles"