Easy things you suck at doing

[RoJoHen]

Things that really aren't that difficult, that most people can do easily, yet for some reason you just can't figure it out.

I am convinced that I am physically and mentally incapable of baking a potato. I have tried about a dozen different ways. I've asked people. I've looked up directions.

But no matter what I do, the potato never gets cooked right!

 

[Kestra]

I can't snap most of the time. And I can't open things. I mangle all sorts of packaging that should be easy to open. I can't open water bottles. When I was a kid the lunch lady had to open my carton of milk for me every day.

 

[Turbo]

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

 

[cultcross]

Whistling. No clue.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Creating things in general. Whether it's posters, notices, forum threads, audit proformas, or works of art - anything.

I seem to have it in my head that the things that have my own creative style and signature are somehow never meant to be in this timeline, and that seeing my own creations out there in the wide world is somewhat against the order of nature.

 

[Shazam!]

I can't snap most of the time.

What?

 

[Kestra]

I can't snap most of the time.

What?

It doesn't make that snapping sound that other people are able to make with their fingers.

 

[Shazam!]

What does?

 

[RandyS]

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

Ironically, scrambled eggs are the one thing I CAN cook without starting a fire (well, that, and frying hamburger). If It wasn't for my girlfriend and her excellent cooking skills, I'd be eating McDonlad's alot.

Or Subway, or Denny's, etc.

 

[RoJoHen]

What does?

Snapping...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Cooking

Whistling

Snapping my fingers (never learned how )

Singing

 

[Shazam!]

What does?

Snapping...

Snapping what?

 

[cultcross]

fingers...

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm gonna go ahead and add that to the list of things Shazam! can't do.

 

[Shazam!]

fingers...

Then what is this 'it'?

It doesn't make that snapping sound that other people are able to make with their fingers.

It implies something else that makes a similar sound to 'snapping' your fingers.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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

Ironically, scrambled eggs are the one thing I CAN cook without starting a fire (well, that, and frying hamburger). If It wasn't for my girlfriend and her excellent cooking skills, I'd be eating McDonlad's alot.

Or Subway, or Denny's, etc.

I eat out almost every night. Fortunately, there are a lot of good restaurants near my house (Subway, Arby's, Runza, this barbeque place about a block away, etc.).

 

[RoJoHen]

fingers...

Then what is this 'it'?

It doesn't make that snapping sound that other people are able to make with their fingers.

"It" would be her attempt to snap her fingers.

 

[Lindley]

Perhaps the pronoun "they' would have been more appropriate, but it really doesn't make much difference.....

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Whistling. No clue.

ditto, and crossing my eyes

 

[RoJoHen]

Perhaps the pronoun "they' would have been more appropriate, but it really doesn't make much difference.....

It = the act of snapping her fingers

They = her fingers

Either way, she attempts to snap her fingers, but the act doesn't produce the appropriate snapping sound. Therefore, she can't snap her fingers.