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.

Too many things to list, but the two that I feel worst about are girl stuff and bicycle pumps.
The girl stuff - make up, hair, clothes I look nice in, pubic grooming - has always been a mystery to me, so I've deciddd to outsource handing it down to my daughters. Luckily, they have a lovely older half sister, who can do amazing eye make up.
Bicycle pumps - cycling has been my main form of transport for many years, but I still can't pump up a tire. Either i can't get it on the valve at all, or I get it on wrong and the air whooshes out instead of in. Had to get married to get someone who can pump up tires.

SatNavs. They drive me nuts. I have no idea what 800 metres or 300'yards look like so don't know which turn you mean! Then they lose the signal.Then they send you the wrong way. Fucking hate the bastarding know it all things.
And Excel
And 10 pin bowling.

Hotel showers. Also the plugs/stoppers in hotel sinks. Turns out some of them pop open when you press them, others have a random hidden, turny knob.

sniv

Another one - knitting. Two friends and my mum have so far attempted to teach me, my mum is a brilliant knitter and was knitting like a pro in her early teens. I stab at the wool and drop my stitches and then give up.

Bloody Gro Clocks are impossible to use - just add a button for yes no and up and down instead of all the random symbols which I just don't understand!

Chopsticks

The blinds without the chain/string (cafe blinds or bistro blinds or something).

Just cannot get them to open - supposed to be a downward tug outwards or something.

I end up pulling them longer and longer as I back away from the window. i end up either running out of room and holding the blind across its width, or just run out of blind to 'downwards tug'.

Oh yea, my microwave.

It's a convection oven and grill apparently as well as a microwave.

Which is wasted on me. I just stab at the buttons on the manner of a monkey trying to type the bible. Eventually I manage to nuke some food.

I don't have any patience for cooking.

Another one here who can't work blinds! Tins of corn beef belong in the depths of hell - never ever been able to open one.

False eyelashes and eyeliner and folding fitted sheets. Mine end up in an angry ball of wrinkled hate!

We've lived in our current house for 8 years. There's a group of three light switches which do sitting room x2 and kitchen. It's 50/50 for me to guess the right switch. I've even rewired them to suit me but that made it even worse...

And, like several PP, the bloody PS controller.

Pressure cooker. My mum had one, it frightened the life out of me with its demonic hissing and rattling. I'm an adult who still can't stand to be in the same room as a pressure cooker and have certainly never tried to use one, I know I'd blow the roof if I tried to use one.

Opening tetrapak cartons in a way that creates a little pouring spout. Mine always look like a ferret has opened it with their teeth, and then I pour bastardising uht milk over the worktop and thus starts the day

I know I don't tie my laces like everyone else ties their laces! 😂 fate to embarrassed to check, remember it driving me mad at the time

Cooking rice. I just can't. It's overcooked or undercooked. There is no in between.

Lousy with remote controllers

In fact any controls, showers, etc

Hard maths. Totally useless, algebra anyone?
Wipers on my car too! Has its own agenda.
Cling film should be banned, or redesigned. Its crap.

Tetrapack things, the inventor of them is a billionaire i believe. For inventing the worst things known to man / woman.
Useless and infuriating.

Cant do eyeliner either.
I,struggle with a lot of things really.
Dh just rolls his eyes.

Clothes folding. My mum folds clothes so beautifully but mine look like I've tried to fold them with my feet.

Pastry. I can fuck up ready rolled shortcrust.

I have trouble with this type of corkscrew. Luckily I buy screw tops

tizzy I came on to say exactly the same thing. Can't work those blinds at all.

I have trouble with hand dryers and soap dispensers. I wave my hands under the soap dispenser. Then take them away when nothing comes out. The soap immediately pours on to the counter. And repeat.
Hand dryers don't pick up my frantic hand waving unless I give them a thwack. I think I might be a ghost.

Lastly (I'm pretty thick) it took me ages to work out how to answer my phone without putting speaker on. I had some very public conversations.

Snapping my fingers. I am quite dexterous, can knit and do a lot of other crafts. But for the life of me can't produce a snap. Baffles DH no end.

Contact lenses. Have had 3 trials and not been allowed to take them home from the opticians yet!

I tried 4 taps in a ladies loo in the supermarket before one would work. Other women didnt have this hassle. Things pack up near me. They refuse to work.

To be fair though ladies, fitted sheets are only any good in the packaging.
Out of them and they get minds of their own.
Another invention we never needed.