What have you never been able to get the hang of?

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For me it’s blinds. Any kind. I flip them round the wrong way, send them sailing across the window when I’m trying to let light in, I break the beads, I get the strings knotted.

I’ve also tried to learn to knit 4 times and haven’t ever got beyond a few knotted rows with huge holes in.

Driving, alas. (I'm going to have another go this winter, but as my provisional licence has elapsed, I have to do the theory test again, and the first slot I can get at any centre within 30 miles is in January...)

Half pass. If you know, you know......

I can't roll Rs. Probably makes my French sound awful, but my mouth just won't do it.

Cycling. Much to my shame I've never ever been comfortable cycling a bike. I was given bikes as a child and my poor parents spent hours trying to teach me so it's not due to lack of trying or because I've never owned a bicycle.

Driving I took hundreds of £s of lessons and kept falling on a lighter note I cant clean glass so mirrors windows shower screens it's just a smeary disaster

Reading Ordnance Survey maps. I'm bad with maps and directions in general, but OS maps just don't make sense to me! It's annoying because I live on the edge of the Lake District and walk a lot, so OS maps are potentially very useful.

I am a very keen knitter though. Everyone starts with knots and holes, OP. How long did you persevere on each of your 4 tries?

Oh God - most things. Never known anybody else that struggles with blinds - I'm like that too. Learning an instrument or anything musical has always been a no go for me. And anything sporty too. I can just about ride a bike and I can swim but only breaststroke. Supposed to be learning some computer coding techy thing for work at the moment and I'm not understanding it at all. I taught myself to knit but stick to the basics and can't do any of the complicated stuff.

I can't do that thing where people make their armpits make a squelching noise. I can't whistle.

Ride a bike. My parents were crap at teaching it as well. A few crashes into brick walls and an interesting sojourn over a fence was enough to put me off. Now I have a balance disorder so there's no point trying now.

Maths .Just seeing numbers , x's and y's just fills me with terror.

Cycling for me too! I was in my teens when I got my first bike and learnt but I've never ridden often enough to be confident. I've got a bike now and can manage the local scenic cycle track along the coast and back but the very idea of cycling on a road terrifies me. There's no question that I'd panic, wobble and be hit by a car on day 1.

Meanwhile DP has a fancy expensive off-road bike and very happily goes gunning along cliff paths with a sheer drop to one side

Another one for maths it's a foreign language to me. I tie shoelaces my way not like everyone else.

Juggling, flirting, and making Yorkshire puddings.

Oh yeah I forgot about Maths - definitely that.

Cooking, putting on makeup, wearing dresses, skirts or heels. Can't do any of it.

I have no sense of direction. For example I can park, walk into a building 100m away, then struggle to find my way back to the car. Telling me left and right is useless.i can't visualise layouts.
I'm very good at map reading though... I have to be!

Oh, and styling hair. Can't do that either.

@Mrsjayy

Driving I took hundreds of £s of lessons and kept falling on a lighter note I cant clean glass so mirrors windows shower screens it's just a smeary disaster

Get a microfibre cloth. Game changer.

I really struggle with clock changes in n Autumn and Spring as well. I can't visualise how it changes the day.

Putting on make-up and ending up looking better

French plaits

Lighting a cigarette lighter

Blowing up a balloon and rolling my Rs.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

I really struggle with clock changes in n Autumn and Spring as well. I can't visualise how it changes the day.

I was just gonna say this. I literally sit there thinking “ok so it’s 7am one day, and 6am the next day - so do we gain or lose an hour?” I cannot ever figure it out

No one tell me “spring forward and fall back” cos that doesn’t work either

Adult life

More specifically, which cable goes in what electrical item. Making custard. Eyeliner. Throwing away tights when they have holes in so that I don't put them on when I am in rush. Turning on our burglar alarm. Not swearing (mildly, not like a sailor) in conversations with teachers .

Baking recipes by Mary Berry. They just don’t work for me - any other baking I normally do fairly well with but the Berry isn’t nemesis.

Tradesmen, anything to do with. I've developed a phobia after so many awkward and terrible interactions. Even giving them tea or coffee, now, is a horror. So many things around the house just stay broken (leaking roof!) because I can't face trying to deal with them. But other people are just like ha ha, lovely bloke, here's some tea, what a great job.