Easy things you suck at doing

[trampledamage]

• 3D First-Person Shooters.

Speaking of, I'm the world's worst at any computer game that involves remembering way you've been - from 3D shooters to old text adventure games. I have no capability for making a mental map of anywhere. So I just get lost in those games, I can never find my way back.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I've never beaten anyone in armwrestling. Seriosly, if the person is over the age of, say, 13, I'd be on the losing side. Doesn't matter if they are male or female

 

[Holdfast]

i cant tie my shoes like normal people..

How do you tie them, then?

I also tie them up weird. I take both ends and make loops out of both of them, then I cross the two and tuck one under the other.

"Norms", apparently just make one loop and tie just the straight lace around it. Who are the real freaks?

I can do both the bunny knotting and the regular kind. Frankly, I tend to bunny knot more often. What I DO avoid doing is granny knotting - I hate it when the loops sit vertically rather than horizontally across the shoe. Most inelegant!

[*]Directions. I am hopelessly GPS dependent.

Oh, totally agreed with this one. Even with GPS, it takes me many repeat journeys before I really remember a particular route.

 

[Australis]

RoJoHen, how to bake a potato:

1. Fork it ALL OVER. Many times.
2. Stick it in the oven, high temp.
3. Wait. REALLY wait. Go do something else.

Other stuff I suck at: car maintenance. Just can't get my head around it.

 

[RoJoHen]

Those are the most unspecific directions I've ever heard for baking a potato.

 

[trampledamage]

Yeah, if I go off and do something else, I end up with charcoal in my oven.

These are the instructions from my Grandma's Good Housekeeping cookery book - which I always use. (It also teaches scrambled eggs, if anyone wants that )

Chose even-sized old potatoes
Scrub well and prick all over with a fork
Bake near the top of the oven at 400F for about 45 mins to one hour or until they feel soft when squeezed.

 

[JustKate]

Those are the most unspecific directions I've ever heard for baking a potato.

OK, how about this:
1. Select your potato and give it a good scrubbing, preferably with a brush, but with your hands is fine so long as you're thorough.
2. Poke it several times with a fork, all around the potato. This is to let the steam out so that the potato gets nice and fluffy inside.
3. Smear it with a little bit of cooking oil - olive, canola, corn, doesn't matter so long as it's edible. This will give you a slightly crispy skin, and it also conducts heat into the potato a little more quickly.
4. Put it in a pan or on a baking sheet. If desired, sprinkle it with some salt or garlic salt.
5. Put it in a 350-400 degree oven.
6. Bake for, oh...an hour or so. The bigger the potato, the longer it will take. Regular-size potatoes only take about 45 minutes in my oven, but I have a convection oven. A great big potato in a conventional oven might take 1:15 or so.
7. If you can squeeze it with your (dish towel or potholder protected) hand and it feels nice and soft inside, it's done.

Do not wrap it in foil - it'll turn out gummy.

Too specific?

 

[RoJoHen]

Not at all. The more specific the better.

I will attempt this later in the week.

 

[JustKate]

Just give yourself plenty of time. If it gets done a little early, you can just turn off the oven and leave the potato in there and it'll stay hot for quite a while while you finish fixing whatever else you're having with it.

I love baked potatoes - one of my very favorite things. A little butter, a little salt and pepper, and maybe some chives if I happen to have any hanging around and it just doesn't get much better than that. Well, it's nice with steak, too.

 

[RandyS]

I can't shuffle cards

Who can?

 

[Capn Flukie]

I can't bake a pretty cake.

 

[Kestra]

I can't shuffle cards

Who can?

Me!

 

[freak]

Found something else I suck at doing..I can't whistle to save my own life or snap my fingers either! Those are things that I have never been able to do/suck at doing.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I can't shuffle cards

Who can?

I can, although I do it a bit strangely (sideways, instead of longways). I can't bridge, though.

 

[RoJoHen]

I can't shuffle cards

Who can?

Um...lots of people. I have even taught many people how to do it.

 

[Australis]

Those are the most unspecific directions I've ever heard for baking a potato.

Yes, but they work. Try it. .

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I can't shuffle cards

Who can?

I can, although I do it a bit strangely (sideways, instead of longways). I can't bridge, though.

I can. Took me a while to learn though.

 

[RoJoHen]

I think I'm learning that a lot of people here have problems with fine motor skills.

 

[trampledamage]

I think I'm learning that a lot of people here have problems with fine motor skills.

That's okay, we can bake potatoes.

 

[Argus Skyhawk]

Cooking scrambled eggs. I can cook all sorts of lovely things, including a decent omelet, but I cannot get plain ol' scrambled eggs right.

Interesting. When I've tried to cook an omelet, I've failed and the result was unintended scrambled eggs.

Any way, I also can't whistle, usually.