Easy things you suck at doing

[RoJoHen]

The TrekBBS. It changes lives.

 

[trampledamage]

Hand me a map, ask me how to get from point A to point B. Prepare to be lost for the rest of the day.

Can you follow directions if someone gives them to you?

I can't.

I can navigate using a map fine, but tell me to take the third left, go straight and it's just past the pub and I'll get lost.

 

[Timby]

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.).

Saving the money and learning how to prepare basic dishes might go a long way towards letting you afford that snowblower.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Arby's is a good restaurant? Arby's?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Arby's is a good restaurant? Arby's?

Yes. Their French Dip sandwiches are delicious.

 

[Timby]

That's not a French dip. That's meat paste on some of the most truly awful bread I've ever tasted in my life. (Oh, and the jus is just foul.)

I mean, really? You won't stop bringing up Katz's Deli (which is, ostensibly, a legitimate deli, serving actual sandwiches like a hot pastrami, corned beef, etc.) whenever you get the slightest opportunity, and then you turn around and rave that Arby's is haute cuisine? Shit, that's like saying Applebee's is on the same level as Ruth's Chris, or Dunkin' Donuts is on par with The French Laundry.

Something I cannot do well, though, is start a fire in a fireplace that keeps going for more than a minute. I can have kindling, fire-starters, dry wood, gasoline, napalm, whatever -- I can't get it going to save my life.

 

[Lindley]

Bad striking matches, especially the paper ones.

Cardboard matchbooks are actually really easy once you know the trick.

Just fold the book cover around so that you're pinching the match head between the strike strip and the cover. Then just pull the match out.

 

[Marc]

given the number of times I have to re-tie them I despiar at my ability to tie shoe laces (though some times they came undo cos I step on the frakking lace and I don't know how to double not them).

 

[JonathonWally]

given the number of times I have to re-tie them I despiar at my ability to tie shoe laces (though some times they came undo cos I step on the frakking lace and I don't know how to double not them).

Tie them and keep the laces tucked under the tongue. Keeps the knot tied and hides the ugly laces.

 

[trampledamage]

given the number of times I have to re-tie them I despiar at my ability to tie shoe laces (though some times they came undo cos I step on the frakking lace and I don't know how to double not them).

To double-knot a bow: just take the two loops of the bow and tie a half-knot in them.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Maintaining a normal sleeping pattern. Should be easy, not for me.

 

[RoJoHen]

Maintaining a normal sleeping pattern. Should be easy, not for me.

Ditto.

Some people are able to fall asleep whenever they choose. I don't understand how this is possible.

 

[Capn Flukie]

Laying in bed thinking about how you can't get to sleep is the worst.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

you turn around and rave that Arby's is haute cuisine?

I didn't say that, I just said it was delicious. It is probably not on the preferred list of famous high society food critics or anything like that, but why would I care? If I like it, I'll eat it. However bourgeois and lower-class it makes me sound.

 

[Amaris]

you turn around and rave that Arby's is haute cuisine?

I didn't say that, I just said it was delicious. It is probably not on the preferred list of famous high society food critics or anything like that, but why would I care? If I like it, I'll eat it. However bourgeois and lower-class it makes me sound.

Arby's bacon cheddar melt. I'd slap a nun if that would get me one step closer in line to getting one.

J.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Meat paste"...can't believe anyone still falls for THAT old urban legend.

As for the au jus: Sometimes it's good. Sometimes not. It varies from location to location *and* sometimes from day to day at the same one. At the one near my house, I've gotten somewhat mixed results.

 

[RoJoHen]

I like Arby's fries...but that's about it. And since I am trying really hard to avoid fried food, I really have no reason to go there.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I guess this is one more easy thing I suck at doing: Being overly judgmental about the foods that other people enjoy.

 

[RoJoHen]

The thought of fast food in general makes me sick to my stomach.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

you turn around and rave that Arby's is haute cuisine?

I didn't say that, I just said it was delicious. It is probably not on the preferred list of famous high society food critics or anything like that, but why would I care? If I like it, I'll eat it. However bourgeois and lower-class it makes me sound.

Arby's bacon cheddar melt. I'd slap a nun if that would get me one step closer in line to getting one.

J.

I would buy you a bag of bacon cheddar melts just to see that.

I can't dance. All rhythm has been bred out of my people.