What basic simple thing are you sh*t at?

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I can’t cook rice. If you want rice you can cook it yourself. And I can pull together a roast from scratch and every meal in between without much thought, but for some reason, unless it’s in a microwave bag, I can’t cook rice.

I can’t cook poached eggs either but I feel I’m not alone there.

Giving directions
I walk most places but totally ignore actual road signs, or measurements, so when I give directions it sounds like
"You know the road with the blue house on it? Go down that, for about 5 minutes-"
(But you walk really fast)
"Ok, TEN minutes, then turn left and go along until you see the Cherry blossom tree..."
(er, it's November, how am I going to recognize a cherry blossom tree?)
"Ah, um, well there's also a dog poo bin behind the tree, so there you need to turn right there and go down that street until you see the closed-down newsagent with the red window frames..." and so on.
Not to mention I also do not pay attention to whether a car will be able to drive the exact route I take. Don't ask me for directions, get your Google maps out fgs!

It's funny reading about how many struggle to remember faces. I think I do recognize them, but in a really odd disconnected way so it takes me a good minute to clock on that yes, this person is so-and-so.
Meanwhile DP suffers from the delusion he recognizes ALL faces. He's constantly going "I'm sure I know them from somewhere...", you could create someone with AI and he'd swear he recognize them.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

*dies laughing

I still laugh when I think of it 😂

Talk to someone I fancy without going red

I can keep a shelf or cupboard full of stuff tidy but have no idea how to arrange stuff tidily. Every time I use the airing cupboard i'm hit by towels falling out and I'm shoving them back in and shutting the door quick!
Also in the club of people who can't whistle,click their fingers or ride a bike!

I can't, for the life of me, make white/cheese sauce.

@Batmannequin ugh! I can, but it’s agg.

I do this now www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/sides/cheats-cauliflower-cheese
works for all sorts.

Anything that is required to be filed, listed or sorted into alphabetical order. Get lost after “f” and have to sing the stupid alphabet song in my head every single time.

I genuinely can't recall a sequence beyond 2-3 digits or letters. It drives my other half mad when he is telling me a phone number or password out loud for me to write down. It takes ages as not only does he have to break it up I also parrot it back after every 2-3 he has spoken to me. Only exception to this is my current postcode and my house phone number - only taken me 20+ years to learn them.

At 44 I still struggle to tell the time on analogue clocks. My dad spent hours and hours drawing clock face worksheets (pre internet) for me to no avail, he gave up in the end.

Also in the shit at directions, can't whistle an can't tell Left from Right clubs too. 😂

I'm brilliant at a parallel parking. As long as it's on a street with no cars, lamp posts, kerbs or garden walls......

I'm in my mid 50's and could never catch a ball until my husband took his time and showed me how.

All these years I thought it was just luck. I'm dyspraxic so coordination is an issue.

He taught me how to visualise with throwing and catching and it works. Probably not with fast balls, I've not tried that. But for the first time in half a century I can throw and catch a ball. I can also get things in a bin 🤣

That is a brilliant simile!! 👏

We have a joke in our house about DH’s crockery folding skills. I’m not sure it actually is the best way to load the dishwasher though, the amount of stuff that then comes out not properly clean. 🤷‍♀️

See, I’ve realised that I can’t see small moving objects properly in the air. It makes me feel queasy trying to focus on them. No wonder I can’t catch.

Telling left from right, especially when it's someone else's left or right. I have to turn it into an entire dance: hold up both hands, step to the side, swivel my head back and forth, step to the other side, slowly shake my hands while looking like a bewildered alien... 😂

I also haven't figured out how to snap my fingers.

Discovering that you could poach eggs in the microwave was a revelation for me.

Ditto. I live with a musician whose last girlfriend was the singer in the band and it ended in disaster. I think he was looking for someone who couldn't sing.

I can't drive with a trailer and refuse to learn how. Or change a tyre. Or make coffee in a perculator

I learned to crochet with a Ladybird book that had diagrams. Way way clearer than Youtube or watching your impatient granny who couldn’t slow down her movements enough to make it clear where the thread was going.

I've had 2 professions where remembering names and faces are absolutely key. I can't but could give you 1000 ways to get round this

Getting down to housework - unless a guest’s coming to stay.
And parallel parking. Haven’t even tried for ages. No problem reversing into a space though.

What is the big deal about cooking rice, BTW? I can never understand why people say they can’t. Just bring a pan of plenty of salted water to the boil, sling in rice, stir, bring back to boil, reduce to simmer, set timer for 10 mins, check, set it for a few more if needed. Drain.

Whatever rice I’m cooking I do it like this, basmati, bog standard supermarket long grain, Thai Jasmine, you name it - the packet instructions are usually a good guide, but I’d always check after 10 or 12 minutes.

I did once use Uncle Ben’s - when it was my turn to cook at a BiL’s huge place in France - for 18! There was a rice cooker but max 10 portions.
I followed the UB instructions exactly and I have to say the results were - as per the UB spiel - perfect.

This is me too! Not great when I work in a school! In fact I can't cut nestly at all.

sew neatly,
now i have glasses i can at last thread a needle
reverse into a space, hate it

Please share some tips! I am hopeless at recognising faces to the point where it is embarrassing. My job involves networking which is a disaster for me.

I’m hopeless at so many of these especially parking and wrapping presents but being able to whistle obviously saves the day and means I’m winning at life really!

Ironing: I was delighted when the doctor told me I shouldn't because it was bad for my back. i didn't even have to bribe him to say it either. 🤣

I don't know my left from my right. I think it's because I'm fairly ambidextrous. My family refer to "left" and "the other left" or just point.

Tidying: I don't know how I manage this but if, say, I'm tidying a cupboard. I take a full, but not overflowing cupboard. I take two bags of stuff to the charity shop, another bin bag goes in the bin/recycling-and the stuff left doesn't fit back in the cupboard however hard I try. It's an example where the sum of the parts adds up to more than the total.

When I did my driving test aeons ago, I wrote L and R on the back of my hands!