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What normal things can you not do?

289 replies

Soubriquet · 23/01/2025 12:10

I can’t blow up a balloon. It hurts my ears
I can’t click

OP posts:
DJSteves · 23/01/2025 13:50

Poach an egg
Reverse into a parking space

Fontainebleau007 · 23/01/2025 13:50

Drive
Sing
Play an instrument
Knit
Crochet
Stick up for myself

BunnyLake · 23/01/2025 13:52

lopyrs · 23/01/2025 13:35

I can't do up my bra from behind. I have to do it at the front and rotate it around to the back. I've always done it this way, and when I try to do it the grown up way I just can't 😩

I do that too! If I’ve just had a shower (and now dry) I find it impossible to twist it round though, (so now have to stick a cloth under the back strap to help it swivel round).

Piloom · 23/01/2025 13:52

TheYearOfSmallThings · 23/01/2025 12:33

It is a disability, I tell you, and not one you get sympathy for.

You can get your oesophagus botoxed (seriously) but that is temporary.

😀😀

Jewelanemone · 23/01/2025 13:53

I can't put away hoover attachments in their slots. I also struggle with those children's toys which involve posting a shaped bit of plastic through the same shaped hole, or fitting a shape into a space on a board.

I also can't do those MENSA puzzles where you have to decide which picture is the given shape rotated through, say, 90 degrees.

BusySittingDown · 23/01/2025 13:54

I can't roll my Rs, which is a nightmare for learning Spanish.

FaithFables · 23/01/2025 13:55

Swim, ride a bike, blow up a balloon.

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 23/01/2025 13:56

lopyrs · 23/01/2025 13:35

I can't do up my bra from behind. I have to do it at the front and rotate it around to the back. I've always done it this way, and when I try to do it the grown up way I just can't 😩

Are you my missing twin? I even have trouble with those sports bras that don’t have fastenings, my boobs seem somehow to conspire to miss the ‘cup’.

Lobstercrisps · 23/01/2025 14:00

billycat321 · 23/01/2025 13:23

I can't pick up a hen, even a dead one. (Kept them for 30years until a fox killed the last lot). If I found one dead on the ground that had succumbed to old age I had to use shovel to pick it up and toss it over the hedge. Not a problem shared by most mumsnetters, I think!

Actually, we had a dear departed Hen at the weekend. I picked her up by her rigor mortis clawed foot and threw her into the forest (our garden has a forest) for the foxes and so on to find.

I told her I appreciated her sterling work over the years.

BunnyLake · 23/01/2025 14:00

ellebelli · 23/01/2025 12:52

Plenty already said on here actually.
The thing however that annoys me the most is this,I cannot brush my teeth without ut dripping down my chin and all over the toothbrush.
I see other people (and especially in films) walking about and not a bit of toothpaste spilled.
I look like I'm foaming at the mouth

I always end up getting it on my top too!

Lobstercrisps · 23/01/2025 14:01

@billycat321 and I love picking them up, they are so funny with their beady side eyed panic! I do give them a lovely stroke but I'm not sure they like it!

Tomatocutwithazigzagedge · 23/01/2025 14:05

I can't apply eyeliner on my eyelid, i.e. above my eye. Well I can, but it looks like I drew it on with my foot. So I end up looking like Iris from The League of Gentlemen.

MrsSethGecko · 23/01/2025 14:12

Tie shoelaces. My friends automatically glance at my feet when we meet up to see if I need them doing. (I have admitted defeat now and usually wear buckles or zips.)
I'm 42.

I can't walk up stairs or over bridges where I can see through the steps/wood.

ExquisiteSocialSkills · 23/01/2025 14:13

‘I cannot for the life of me do that thing where you hold your bike to your right, put the left foot on its pedal, push off and swing the right leg over that I see other people doing effortlessly.’

Thank you ExtraDisorganised for describing this so perfectly. I can ride a bike fine but I can’t do this, nor can I cycle no-hands.

AuntieMarys · 23/01/2025 14:19

Currently fuck all with my broken shoulder! But in normal life i can't ride a bike ( I'm 66) or put my head under water

lopyrs · 23/01/2025 14:23

Are you my missing twin? I even have trouble with those sports bras that don’t have fastenings, my boobs seem somehow to conspire to miss the ‘cup’.

I'm so relieved it's not just me, those swimming costume or bikini tops with plastic fastenings are the worst for me, I have to go find my DH to do it!

lopyrs · 23/01/2025 14:24

I do that too! If I’ve just had a shower (and now dry) I find it impossible to twist it round though, (so now have to stick a cloth under the back strap to help it swivel round).

Yes, post swimming is the worst!

Planesmistakenforstars · 23/01/2025 14:25

Fall asleep in less than 3 hours.

freezingmytoesoff · 23/01/2025 14:30

Ride a bike. My coordination and balance is non existent.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 23/01/2025 14:31

ohtowinthelottery · 23/01/2025 12:16

I can only wink with my right eye and not my left eye.

My DP can't wink at all. He closes both eyes and scrunches his face up.. It's hysterical.
Apparently Kate Moss can't wink... it was a nightmare for ID magazine covers!

teentantrums · 23/01/2025 14:32

Ratri · 23/01/2025 12:22

That’s fascinating. How can’t you? I mean, I assume you have the same bodily chemistry as belchers, but something inhibits it somewhere? Not that I’ve ever thought about what exactly causes a belch…

I can’t either! At least not on demand. Probably burp by accident about twice a year but I don’t know how people can make themselves do it.

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 23/01/2025 14:33

I can't spell.

teentantrums · 23/01/2025 14:34

I also can't do those MENSA puzzles where you have to decide which picture is the given shape rotated through, say, 90 degrees.
Me neither. How are you at driving? I hate it because I find it really hard to tell where cars are coming from when I look in my mirrors. I think it is related!

MorrisZapp · 23/01/2025 14:35

Apply eyeshadow

Devilsmommy · 23/01/2025 14:35

Hyperion100 · 23/01/2025 12:15

Get out of a chair without making that "arrrgh" noise.

Same, also getting out of bed or getting up from the floor. I'm only 38 but you'd think I was 90 by the sounds I make😂