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.

I just cannot reverse park to save my life. I'm a good driver so long as I'm going forward, but put that thing in reverse and god help me.

Whistling.
Make up (nieces and nephews will attest that I am very good at face painting, however).
Any hairstyle more complicated than plaits.

French. I had 12 years of French lessons from Reception to GCSE and it still sounds like one long bowel sounds. Oddly enough, I picked up Spanish and German very quickly.

French plaiting my Dds’ hair. My non-French plaits were often a bit wonky too.
I don’t know how people manage to do it with only two hands!

Tying shoelaces the way most people do. Have to do two loops in a bow.

Swimming. A really annoying one because I think I would love it, but I could just never get the hang of it and was always a bit scared of the water.

Heights unless they are enclosed spaces.

Folding fitted sheets. I just can't do them neatly 😀

Cooking in general, especially baking

Clicking my fingers and tying shoes the usual way, i make 2 loops and tie them together. All my dc can do both

Wakeboarding.

Making cheese sauce, mine always separates no matter what I do.
Baking cakes, undercooked, overcooked, sunken in, everything, I just can't get it right.
Crocheting, I'm ok until I lapse concentration, make a mistake, then the whole lot's fucked, I can't seem to put it right so give up.
I can't apply make up well either.

Diving. Loved swimming as a kid and was quite good at it but just couldn't get my body to go in the water head first.

Anything to do with technology, I am lucky enough to have an iPad and an iPhone but I can barely use them, no one (not even my teenage DS) will show me properly and I am sick of being told 'they are so intuitive' .

At least I can manage to find Mumsnet on them .

@Othering

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

Totally understand! For be it's getting b and d the right way round, I have to really concentrate and still often get it wrong!

Excel.
Make-up
Cracking eggs. I either don’t crack enough or crack too much.

Small talk

Chess. Its the way that different pieces can do different moves and there's no finish line. ...that and the fact that they aren't called the horsey one, the castle-y one etc.

Crocheting. I’ve tried & tried.....gutted.

Social chit chat. I am absolutely rubbish at it

Maths.....cannot understand it all
Map reading....I just can’t do it

Loads of things. Maths, singing in tune, driving, making a good first impression, losing weight.

Knitting. I can crochet no problem but knitting leaves me completely stumped.

I reckon I can pass at most of the previous, cannot do chopsticks to save my life!

@lazylinguist

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?

Maybe not long enough! My mum and 3 different friends have attempted to show me and I feel like I’m just making clumsy jabbing movements 😭

Not sure I’d be any good with maps either - but it must be lovely living so close to the Lakes!