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.

The bloody slow cooker, I WANT to love it but I just find it a total faff

Another one here for cling film. Hate the bastard stuff.

I got one those expensive types in the end, in the plastic box that you push the lid down on. Works a bit better, but it's still a sod.

A fax machine. Every time I use one I hope it's the last time as I always end up asking for help. One time a colleague had to point out that I'd put the paper in the bit where faxes come out instead of the feed tray. I can use a scanner, photocopier or printer, just not a fax machine. I have no idea why people still use them anyway.

Well i love excel and I've just about got cling film sorted, but can i understand uno rules? No. I rely on the 7 yo. And ditto the PlayStation which is our DVD player. Argh.

Cables, I break into a sweat when I look behind my desk at work. Thank god for Bluetooth and WiFi at home 😀

I'm also dire with blinds OP, I wrecked the roller blind mechanism in my new house after thee days 😰

Also never really got the hang of my limbs. I have to use plastic crockery as I drop/break/smash everything and have permanently mis-shapen toes due to stubbing them so many times (I do have those horrid second long toes though which don't help).

Air con controls. Never understand what the different buttons do.

Mudcity phew I'm glad it's not just me!

Printers.
No matter whose, no matter where. They just hate me.
I'm convinced printers are malevolence in machine form.

Strimmers - since mowing is now my job which I'm fine with since getting a mower with wheels I'm told "just whizz over the strimmer" yeah like its that easy, I've loads of time to go spooling a stupid thin blue plastic line and when it does work it kicks stones at me, bloody thing hate it.

I now say "I don't DO strimming" and leave it for Dh when he comes home (which is only weekends).

Cling film, iTunes and have no idea what half th button ps on the car dash do !!!

Laminators. I can make actual fire.

I cannot for the life of me open a tin
of corned beef (or any tin with the little key thing) I even watched a YouTube video and I still can't get it. Dps job now forever and always.

My own old iPod that I've had for years. I just push a lot of buttons until something happens that is close enough to what I wanted.

New(ish) kitchen taps. Half the time I turn them on full instead of off and water goes everywhere. I keep meaning to check if these turn off the opposite way to normal. I manage to function ok with other taps, even ones I've never used before, so I suspect these are not normal.

DH gave me an umbrella where you press a button and it pops open. All good so far. I used it once, put it down and now can't get it to go back up again! It won't go the normal push the thingy up the slidey pole way. And the button is doing fuck all. I told DH it's broken, he informed me that I am just incompetent ... but hasn't shown me how to work it! So I walked around in the rain today and got frizzy hair

Oh God. ALL The things on here. But especially blinds. When I worked in a school, the boy I was working with used to shout "LOOK EVERYONE, MISS IS GOING TO TRY AND CLOSE THE BLINDS!" And the little fuckers (the blinds not the children) would twist themselves into horrible contortions, and on one particularly dreadful occasion one actually came right off the wall and landed on some children.
And also keys, and padlocks, and car bonnet catches, and gas barbecues (eyebrow, pah, who needs them?), and plasters, and nail varnish (why????).

Showers in other people's houses/holiday lets/hotels. Can never work them out.

Anything to do with gaming. Especially PS4 and the Playstation Store.

Slot machines in amusement arcades. I can just about manage the 2p falls anything else and I am baffled.

I don't get the spreadsheet love. They re really not all that.

Excel. Stupid thing.

bottom of our stairs. light switch 3 switches. 40 years. still flick them randomly to get the hall light

Saying the word

"Peculiarly"

Liquid eyeliner and false lashes. Just can't make them look good. Doesn't matter how many YouTube tutorials I watch, I just can't get it right.

Skateboards. I've learnt to rollerblade, ice skate, and ski, but I never could figure out how you're supposed to not just fall off a skateboard.

Moving mattresses up and down stairs. You'd think this wouldn't happen that often, but we've moved a lot and I've helped friends move. I always end up halfway up the stairs in a fit of giggles with the mattress bending in half, sliding down onto me, squashing me against the wall or some other ridiculous situation.

Seen other people move mattresses with no trouble at all but I can't master it!

My hob knobs, not the biscuits, no trouble with them.

4 year old hob, I still can't work out which knob works which ring when I'm cooking in a hurry without my specs.

I'm utterly ashamed....I always forget my left n right and I cannot for the life of me get deal or no deal.

excel
cling film
card games except snap
our bt tv box