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.

OMG I am so happy to read that i'm not the only one hating EXCEL and spreadsheets. MY DH has one for everything and my kids call him spreadsheet dad

The80s I can't get the hang of heels either - I decided a couple of years ago that no more would I waste more money on even a small heel when they make my feet ache. I kind of stomp about in anything higher than an inch, I've got very short Hobbittoes and they don't seem to bend as I walk in heels, they just sort of squash together painfully.

Corkscrews, (hence buying screw top wine) anything flat pack, anything electrical, anything to do with cars (although I can now top up the oil and coolant!)...

Anything made by Apple, my brain just can't work them, they give me the rage. And twitter, no idea how it works.

Mooncups - can't get them out

Remote controls, I get there in the end, but everyone loses their patience with me

Heels, I lean forward and look like I'm about to fall

Also can't ever work out how to put things back in a box.

Corkscrews. I have broken several including a very fancy, expensive one that was supposed to be really easy to use. I have in fact decided to give up on corkscrews and just buy screw top wine from now on.

Press ups. Honestly I've tried every technique, practiced daily, to no avail. Id love to be one of those cool Lara Croft/ GI Jane casually tough gals but nope.

Someone said rice. Dh makes marvellous boiled rice. Not sticky, not underdone, fluffy etc. He's even showed me his method. (Wash rice a few times, let it stand in water then something about craters) Buggered if I can do it!

Ive found my people!
I wished i could wear higher heeled shoes though. They are elegant.
Some corkscrews are better than others. I have ended up pushing corks into the bottle in rage before now, then had to pick bits of cork out my merlot. Not recommended.
Screw tops are my friend.

Cant do heels. Or proper hair and makeup. Blinds I'm ok on though so thats something...

Spreadsheets here. My current boss thinks I'm quite a Luddite, yet in a previous job I was the go-to person to sort people's IT out for them.

But I didn't have to use Excel...

Yes to fax machines and Excel. And I can't say the word 'statistics'. It can however be usefully abbreviated to 'stats'.

I use a rice cooker for rice. Idiot-proof.

I can't do it myself in a pan.

Driving, Excel, saying no to wine, chocolate or handbags. I'm a total failure!

Veg peelers. I just can't work out why they were invented when a knife is much quicker and less likely to peel your skin off.

I have not found a good way to get to the meat presented on a small tray then plastic covering it sucked and shaped around the tray.You need a sharp pointy knife to even get started.Is there an easier way?

The bloody photocopier at work. Every year as it gets round to mocks i have to photocopy the exam papers from last year only reduce their size and double side them to reduce costs. And every year i waste about 60 copies trying to do it. And every year i and up saying "Just turn the paper round" to the kids as it's come out upside down again.

My Garmin Forerunner 210 (GPS) watch. The bloody thing is just not intuitive and I can never remember how to use it. Every time I have to get the manual out and remind myself, and even then I end up pressing the wrong buttons while I'm out. And I can't read the wording on the dial as it's small white text on pale green FFS! Sodding thing, I'll never buy another one.

iTunes. I just don't find it intuitive either and have had so much faff with it that I've pretty much given up. Would only get a non Apple MP3 player in future so I don't have to use it.

Driving lessons! I keep screwing my maneouvers up and its really starting to get me down. I can drive the car okay apart from this. Im just not confident with the maneouvers though :(

Toilet roll dispensers in public toilets. I can never find the end. And if it's one that has to slide before you can access it then I'm totally done for.

I have found my tribe !!!!
Excel
Showers Away From Home - the number of times I have been scalded from the hot tap or stood under a measly sprinkling of cold water whilst having my toes de skinned from the multi purpose spout...
Twitter
Flatpack anything
DVD player. Never mastered it. Never recorded anything .
The delay cook function on my oven. Would be so useful at times, but I just daren't . It looks so horribly complicated.

This is so fascinating. As a kid I was always bullied as always last to catch on to rules of board games etc, yet I was bright.

I love maps and always do well on those 'fit these random blocks together and make a statue of the queen / forth bridge ' type exercises so it can't be a spatial thinking type deficit thing for me.

I was sent on a simple computer coding course at work. It made me want to cry. I just knew, very soon, that my brain simply didn't work that way and yet I tend to love complexity in abstraction. It's is very strange.

Any insights anyone into what lies behind this ( sorry if I am hijacking/ deading the thread)

Rolls of bloody cling film. I can never find the bastarding end of them. And bottles of liquid hand soap. Every one I get fucks about as I try to open it and I end up having to get DD to deal with it,who thankfully seems to have the knack.

Driving, winking, strip lashes, styling the back of my hair. All the important stuff.

Keys. Every single time I put every single one in upside down.

And the ironing board. I have to put it up with both hands and a shoulder. No idea how it's meant to be done, but it definitely needs more limbs than I own.