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

268 replies

PeachyCandle · 02/08/2017 17:39

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.

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VampireSnail · 02/08/2017 19:16

Not me (honestly) but I know someone who can't use a tippex mouse... Shock

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 02/08/2017 19:24

Winterc00kie if you point index finger up and thumb horizontal, the fingers that make an "L" shape are from the left hand. My little brother taught me that when I was about 17 and he was 7!
I have a tattoo on my left wrist now so that helps me! Grin

Winterc00kie · 02/08/2017 19:34

Haha thanks Lloyd, I always hold up an invisible pen too as I write with my right x

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PeachyCandle · 02/08/2017 19:48

I'm so glad I've found some more people who can't do blinds - DH, and anyone else who has seen me use them, always looks at me in bewilderment as I untangle my arms and hair from the strings or send them crashing onto the windowsill with a loud clatter. I hate them.

I've thought of another one - smokey eye make up. I've had it done by professionals a few times in an attempt to learn, and once for a wedding, but when I try myself I can't get it right at all and look like a panda.

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NecklessMumster · 02/08/2017 19:53

Yes! Slot machines! And arcade games in general. I put money in, random lights flash then its over and ive lost and i dont know what happened.

TheSnowFairy · 02/08/2017 19:53

For all of you saying cling film, this changed my life:

www.lakeland.co.uk/7518/Wrapmaster-Foil-and-Cling-Dispenser

Can also be bought from Amazon.

And on a slightly different note, what I find difficult is covering books with sticky covering. Every bloomin' September we have a pile to do Confused

NipInTheAir · 02/08/2017 19:55

Breasts. Just couldn't get mine to work well enough. Kids turned out fine though.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 02/08/2017 19:55

I've got that Lakeland cling film dispenser /cutter and it's wonderful.

I can't get on with mascara

keeprunninguphill · 02/08/2017 19:57

Self service checks outs. Embarrass myself every time. Now refuse to use them - unless I have a child with me who manages them with ease!

CocoLoco87 · 02/08/2017 20:03

Anyone else sat there saying 'peculiarly' to themselves now? ...

Gotanewusernamenow · 02/08/2017 20:06

haha

Changing the time on the oven after clocks go forward/back.
Always have to get the instructions out.

WildBelle · 02/08/2017 20:08

USBs. Put them in the wrong way around every time.

Notonthestairs · 02/08/2017 20:11

Printers. Bronzer. Keys & locks. Babyliss Big Hair. Hair straighteners.

There's more... let me think..

Gotanewusernamenow · 02/08/2017 20:12

Yes to USBs.

Also locking the window/ handle .
There are only two ways the key will fit in. And I always put it in the wrong way.

WildBelle · 02/08/2017 20:13

Oh yy to the babyliss big hair! It makes me look like Wurzel Gummage when I've had a go.

Bravas · 02/08/2017 20:20

I can't make archive boxes, I have tried regularly for 20 years. I just can't do it. Thankfully I have a lovely colleague who makes them for me now.

Sniv · 02/08/2017 21:25

Tea/Coffee urns at meetings. I stride up confidently and press what I think is a button on the top, but is actually just part of the lid. Then, as a queue builds up behind me, I find an actual button to press but still don't get any water to come out. Then I twist the lid round the wrong way until it's so tight it's fiendishly difficult to unscrew. Then I twist it too far the other way and the lid comes off and I burn myself and steam my glasses up. Then I press the button again, and water comes out, but misses my cup and goes all over the table. Then, finally, to the delight of the room, I actually get a cup of tepid water that tastes like plastic and it's all so, so worth it.

Even tea urns are topped by my girlfriend's smart TV that has some unholy linkage to her playstation and always has to be operated via a playstation controller. "Put on one of the new QI episodes on Netflix while I sort drinks" she says, casually, as if I'm some sort of wizard.

Notsoyummi · 02/08/2017 21:33

Potato peeler I use knife easier and quicker

topcat2014 · 02/08/2017 21:37

sex still managed one DC though..

topcat2014 · 02/08/2017 21:38

I can do Excel though :)

topcat2014 · 02/08/2017 21:38

the car horn, since they started putting them in the steering wheels.

LillyLoves · 02/08/2017 21:39

Maps. My brain really struggles to compute the information they are showing me and correlate that to where I am. It's weird.

dudsville · 02/08/2017 21:42

I learned how to tie my shoes last year. Up until then I thought it was the shape of my foot that made the bow go up and down rather than side to side! I now have lovely side to side bows. Thank you Ted talk!

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 02/08/2017 21:44

Sewing. Cannot do it.

dudsville · 02/08/2017 21:45

Ha ha sniv! "As if I'm some sort of wizard".