What normal thing are you shit at?

[QueenOfOversharing]

When my brother was learning to drive, he drove better in reverse - I have no idea why, or if it's a "thing", but he was utterly shit at driving forwards! 😂 obviously he can do it now.

I can't use a curling tong, or blow dry my hair using a brush & drier. I can't coordinate my hands to do it. In my mind, I feel like I'm going to look in the mirror & look like Farah Fawcett, but every time I look like Jimmy Saville.

What normal thing do you struggle to do?

Any kind of accounting task. I just mentally switch off and think 'this is too boring ' even though I do loads of other boring stuff and don't mind

Learning languages for me too

I'm just really shit at it and should be fluent by now, ffs

@staywithmemyblood

I’m shit at sticking to plans, I love to make a plan and then deeply regret it and try my hardest to cancel! Kids plans, family plans, friends plans.....any plans

Driving.....i panic if something is coming towards me. Safer for everyone if I don't drive.
Cant sew or bake for toffee.

French braids or eyeliner. I have eyelash infills and the gap between them and the eyeliner always looks ridiculous.

Sewing.

Boiling an egg. It’s weird as I’m a bit of a culinary whizz, but ask me to boil an egg and I will fuck it up.

I’m shit at French braids too

Social smalltalk. It kills me and I'm rubbish at it.

Buttering bread ! That bloody crack hand of mine !

Tact.
I'm a nice person, I really am but I have raised Saying the Wrong Thing to an art form.

heidipi

Get a rice cooker.

I can't use the dryer of my washer dryer unless I have set it to wash and dry.

Sewing
Assemble stuff esspecially if it’s Ikea furniture

Would you believe ‘baking potatoes’?

I’m a really good cook, can crank out some amazing food. But can’t manage a decent baked potato. I usually give up and turn them into mash or gratin halfway through. I had to confess this recently when my SIL asked for the recipe/technique for my fab mash. Ummm, start as though you’re trying for baked potatoes, fail at that, then onwards...!

Reversing the car - I'm good at it now, but avoided tricky reversing where possible for ages after passing my test. I'm not good at inverting anything in my mind and was always turning the wheel the wrong way at first. I think it's all related to poor spatial awareness, and not being able to do 2D to 3D. Not very good with maps, plans and sets of instructions either.

I'm not very good at remembering the way to somewhere, even I have driven it before

I need about four or five goes to do it confidently. DH would remember after driving it once or twice.

Directions. Left and right. It's really embarrassing for me because I am very self reliant. Luckily my dd has inherited dh's innate ability to work out which is the correct path without too much fuss. She even replaces sat nav in the car on occasion.

Bra fastening I can just about do behind my back, but not always accurately, in the right hooks.

Bikini fastenings are however like a Krypton Factor challenge. I can see how to do them perfectly well when in front of me, but behind my back - no chance. I have to pre-fasten and somehow get the bikini over my head, get DH to do it, or just get the ones you can tie in a bow (as curiously, I can easily tie a bow behind my back).

I can't tie knots. I once made a man I was working with really angry when he was trying to show me how to fasten a bale of newspapers together and I just couldn't do it. I can only just about tie my shoes by making two loops and crossing them. This was a big problem when i was a cub leader.

Getting to sleep. It's 1:30 am here.

I should have joined you as i was awake then and again 3.30am and then 5 am!

I'm terrible at cycling, despite cycling loads as a kid....I just fall off!

Frying eggs. They ALWAYS stick to the pan & fall apart 😳

Re the cooking rice. Here’s how I do it, it works every time:

Using the same mug/cup, out in double the amount of boiled water as rice (as 1 mug of rice=2 cups of boiled water. Put salt in. Saucepan lid on, do not touch it. It takes roughly 10 mins, but keep checking toward the end to make sure all of the water has gone. Then fluff with a fork/spoon.

Instant fucking gravy