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

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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.

I can't open sachets of sauce / vinegar etc

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Can't paint / decorate or clean windows without them looking worse than before ....... Also struggle to work out of my car will fit through a small gap.....

( Seem to be contributing lots to this thread :/ )

I always turn the key the wrong way when I'm trying to get in the house - worse if it's not my door/key.

I avoid eating potatoes because I can't seem to work a peeler properly and it always takes ages. If I ever do a jacket potato I always feel relived that I've avoided the horror of peeling them. If I ever offer to help at someone's house at Christmas or a roast I always panic that they will suggest I peel something.

Good news for the USB strugglers - the new USB 3 connector goes either way, my Huawei phone has it.

Driving. Passed my test first time by some miracle, never drove again. I consider confident drivers to be on a par with Uma Thurmans character in Kill Bill. I can only dream.

Pronouncing Huawei.

Walking in heels, or even standing in them.
When I got married I decided for some obscure reason to wear 3 inch heeled shoes.
I hung onto my father for dear life going up the aisle and onto my husband coming back down.

Knitting. No matter how many times my mother tried to teach me, I failed miserably.

Chopsticks. By the time I've managed to get a tiny morsel of food to my mouth, everyone else is just finishing dessert and coffee!

Popping into the supermarket for a pint of milk see's me coming out with at least two carrier's of groceries.

Coffee machines
Vending machines
Setting the clock on the oven
Map reading
"Tear here" on packaging does not work unless you are Edward Scissorhands
Recording on the free view box
The strimmer
I do love excel though
My list is endless (sigh)

@teutonic im the same with heels. I can last approximately 15 seconds in them and then give up 😂

Facebook, it seems so pointless & I just don't get it at all

HD telly. I cant see any difference

Ironing and folding fitted sheets

Morris I think that's USB C - my One plus phone has it, I've had the phone two years, can never ever borrow a charger! On the plus side, no-one steals mine.

It "who-ah-way".

Peeling open packaging. Trays of meat etc from the supermarket are the worst.

I wrestle about with it for ages till it gives way and splatters meat juice everywhere.

I have to steel myself to do it.

A car

His/Her. I know exactly which one is for a male and female but in speech when I talk fast I often muddle them up.

I am not mega tall ( 5 foot 7 and a bit) but i could never wear heels.
i admire women that can and so effortlessly too, they seem to glide around in them so easily ( with beautiful kohl eyes, something else i cant master)

yes to small sachets of sauces - i end up tearing the corner with my teeth if there's no scissors around. gross, but it works and only if the sauce is for me and nobody else.
i am a better driver than i was at 19 though, so maybe things improve with age?

Tin openers. I'm a lefty who has always used most things the right handed way but for some reason I sort of forget how I hold tin openers in between uses.

Chopsticks. Also just cannot clean windows. I keep trying but they are always smeary no matter what I use

Doors. I always struggle to open doors. At my friends house I always without fail turn the door knob the wrong way. I have known her for 5 years.

The playstation 4 controller. It is our dvd player and if me or dd knock it and it pauses or skips forward or something we are doomed; dvd time is over.

Also maths. I could do algebra, I got the theory of things. Cannot do numbers, even the most basic adding up throws me.

Ah the malevolence of inanimate objects.

I'm a proponent of this theory:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism

So many...

Cars. (34. Professional woman. Never even started one. The thought scares the bejebus out of me)
Washing machines.
Heating/air con controls
Coffee machines.
The PlayStation. (Yes, to wizardry).
Tetra packs.
Showers.
Hobs.

I have no idea how I get by tbh.

Staplers. I used to be in charge of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of equipment in a lab but I can't work staplers

Ah you're right, Outtogetyou. It's a pain not to swap chargers but surely the luddites will catch up soon?

I asked an actual Chinese person how to pronounce Huawei and the closest I can get would work as 'My way or the Huawei'
:)

I am 51. Here are just some of the many things I can't do.

Eye liner flick.
Access databases. I have a load of info I know would be better in an actual database rather than a huge Excel spreadsheet, but I can’t work out how to split out the info. Or how to do anything else, actually.
Sewing machines. I can hand sew, I can do invisible hemming, but run in fear from an electric sewing machine.
USB plugs: I think there’s universal law that says you have to try them three times to get it right. There are only two sides, and I do a happy dance on any occasion I get the stick in on the second go, let alone the first!
Glass doors. I am now convinced any glass door is automatic and stand in front of them waiting before the realisation dawns.
Old-fashioned corkscrews.
Looking smart smart rather than smart casual.
Heels.
Anything that involves using both feet and hands. Which is the main reason I can’t drive. Not helped by the Left/right confusion I’ve only recently got to grips with.

MorrisZapp, in my mind Huawei is pronounced Kim, but that is purely because I work with a Hua Wei, called Kim.

The child lock on my oven. Whenever my DP does this and he's not here, I have to ring him up to ask how to unlock it, even though he's told me so many times.

The PS4. Any game console really.

Using a corkscrew can be hit or miss.