AIBU to ask what you can never get the hang of using?

[PeachyCandle]

For me it's window blinds. The strings always confuse me, they flip the wrong way, or get jammed. At work I managed to pull some off the wall. We moved into a new house last week and I've already got the blinds in 2 different rooms wonky and stuck.

I'm also pretty useless with tin openers and usually have to ask for assistance.

Those meat and fish trays. I find them difficult to open if the plastic is close to the food and they don't all have a peel tab so I end up cutting with scissors.

This thread is fascinating! I did already say upthread, those stove top coffee makers. I just can't. It's funny how very smart and capable people can have that one thing that reduces them to being a confused and befuddled twit. I remembered another one, which is that I struggle to open my own front door. There's a knack to it, and I can never remember what that knack is. If I need the toilet, or it's very late and scary looking outside, I start jangling the keys around in a fit of hysteria trying to do 'the knack'. we've lived there for years now, when will I be able to do it?! I literally open and close my front door about 8-10 times a day in a big kerfuffle

Windows 10

WHY did I think it would be better than my dependable old Windows 7 ???

This new version was dictated in Japanese, translated into Swahili and then written in gobbledegook.

I have spent the past half an hour trying to get a very simple email done ... I could have splatted it out in 5 mins under the old system

Grrrrrrr
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Excel
Lipstick
DPs new car without a handbreak or key
False eyelashes or smokey eye shadow
Get a short sequence of numbers in the right order the first time

But I can

Read a map
Open a tin or wine
Start a fire/BBQ etc
Read music
Put together flatpack
Rewire a plug

So it's swings and roundabouts really.

I can use normal can openers, but can't use my Culinaire MagiCan opener without asking my teenage DS.
Every single frigging time !

Chop sticks, no matter how hard I try I cannot use them at all.

Yes to TV remotes !!!
Had my
Own little struggle tonight with our 20

I can do excel though

It's my happy place at work . Love a very complex linked excel sheet hours of fun

Counting in my head. I still use my fingers, i try not to do it in front of people though..

Stairgates. Never had them when DC were small, get completely bamboozled if we go to a friend's house with them

Child safety caps on medicine and cleaning products. DD has done them for me, since she was about 4 years old

Tin openers . I thought it was because I was left handed but I can't even manage an electric one !

Love Excell, hate printers (or they hate me).

The tin foil box with tabs on each end. Don't understand how to do this.

Following a sat nav. I always drive past turnings...

Passwords. I just can never remember the fuckers and lock myself out of things all the time. There are websites I've vowed to never use again even though I want to because the password needs to be 97 characters, capitals, lower case, a symbol, a number and your favourite Shakespeare sonnet. If my phone ever logs me out of mumsnet I'll never see any of you again.

Twitter - not a clue

Child car seats. My nephew is 3 and I still haven't mastered it. Due in 5 days with my first and I'm currently about the throw ours out the window!