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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.

OP posts:
goose1964 · 02/08/2017 23:43

Icing bags, funnily enough plugs, anything fiddly. Think I my be dyspraxic though

The80sweregreat · 02/08/2017 23:45

Bodmas - even the word gives me the rage.

Xmasbaby11 · 02/08/2017 23:45

Yy iTunes. I hate it.

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 02/08/2017 23:49

Spacialafuckingwareness

OutToGetYou · 02/08/2017 23:50

Tyre pressure gauges and air pumps at petrol stations. Totally bewildering.

ScaredShipless · 02/08/2017 23:50

Tin openers

Ceebs85 · 02/08/2017 23:56

Liquid eyeliner
Twitter
The Piano...years of lessons. Hated every one of them. My hands wouldn't do what I wanted them to.
Curling tongs

MoHunter · 02/08/2017 23:56

Nail varnish. No matter how careful I've been it's never neat and no matter how long I allow it to dry I always end up smudging it! Never use it nowadays!!

PurityOfChaos · 02/08/2017 23:58

Card readers, I have to ask every time where to put the card in because there are no two that work the same way.

Pump soap, I can't open them. I twist the top according to instructions but they never open, my DH opens them no problem though.

Neolara · 02/08/2017 23:59

Maps. Left and right.

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 02/08/2017 23:59

Yy to maps!

ClemDanfango · 03/08/2017 00:05

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Duckswaddle · 03/08/2017 00:06

Tape measures. No matter how carefully it is explained to me I can't use them. Confused

mygorgeousmilo · 03/08/2017 00:06

Cannot function a cafetière AT ALL!! Literally stare at it like it's an alien and don't know what to do. My husband had shown me so many times, it's getting embarrassing Confused

SylvesterTheCat · 03/08/2017 00:07

My bloody sewing machine

SylvesterTheCat · 03/08/2017 00:08

Also...

My car when doing a bloody parallel park

PrimalLass · 03/08/2017 00:12

Excel
Android

SylvesterTheCat · 03/08/2017 00:13

Yes! I'm another for bloody Excel.

This thread is therapeutic

AllToadsLeadToHome · 03/08/2017 00:18

I can never fit the blades into the electric saw, I know it is easy, I just can't do it.

I can't write text messages and send blank ones or bits of messages.

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 03/08/2017 00:18

Putting the bloody duvet cover back on. There was a back on you tube a while back I think - could I bloody do it? That'll be a big fat NO ...........

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 03/08/2017 00:19

Hack not back!Grin

Whitelisbon · 03/08/2017 00:19

Girly stuff. Makeup, nail varnish, hair, knowing what clothes look good with what clothes, that sort of shite. I live in jeans and trainers, and, on the odd occasion I need to dress up, 14yo dd has to dress me help.
Went to a wedding recently, and everyone told me how nice I looked. Little did they know I'd let dd loose online to buy me a dress and shoes, and she'd done my hair, makeup and nails. Left to my own devices I'd have looked like a clown.

AllToadsLeadToHome · 03/08/2017 00:21

Yes, the duvet cover thing, I have to climb inside to get to the top corners, have tried the burrito method and still end up climbing inside.

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 03/08/2017 00:22

Ooh I can't 'do' DD hair - plait it or anything ( yes I've watched loads of bloody you tube videos but still can't do it! ) She has a ponytail and two clips in - who cares anyway - she's only three.......

mummyrabbitpeppapig · 03/08/2017 00:22

And I can't 'put together a 'look''.