I missed the stick-shift convo!
I learned stick by driving tractors and what-not when I was around 10. So I was driving stick shift cars for about 8 years before I first stalled one starting out. Because of my tractor experience, when I first started driving stick shift cars I made the opposite mistake that most new stick drivers make: I'd give the engine too much gas and take too long letting up the clutch. I'd also use a lot of force shifting gears because many tractors were hard to shift.
eta: accidentally posted too soon!
My high school girlfriend noticed I was using too much force to shift, so she told me what her dad told her: Move the shifter like you're holding a guy's cock.
The first stick car I owned was my '00 Focus. I loved driving stick except when I'd get stuck in bad traffic jams--my leg would get pretty tired after a few hours of stop-and-go driving. So my current Focus has an automatic--partially because of the traffic jam issues and partially because new automatics get better mileage than a manual transmission.
I also drove a van with a three-on-the-tree manual transmission at a job when I was in high school. It was fun except when it got stuck in third gear and I had to drive it back that way.