A while ago I did some work in a well known custom car shop. Everything they build uses a manual transmission so everyone there knows how to drive one. One day a new project came in, a late 60s Chevy pickup with a three speed on the column. The head fabricator, a guy in his late thirties, got in it and couldn't figure it out. I watched him and it took me a minute to realize that he had no idea what he was looking at. "Three on the tree" I told him, he had no idea what I meant.
I have an old square body Chevy with the old granny low 4 speed in it that I use every now and then when I need to move something heavy. I can't go anywhere in this thing without someone wanting to buy it. I was out the other day and of coures someone was looking it over and commented on the stick shift. "Modern day anti theft" I called it. Old guy, he just smiled and agreed.