Easy things you suck at doing

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, good drivers need to be completely aware of their surroundings. I am naturally aware of everything going on around me anyway, so driving is no problem. I mean, I start to think about breaking if I see someone else's breaklights 300 feet away! I always know what cars are around me and what they're probably going to be doing next.

 

[NickInABox]

Opening doors.

I do this thing when I open a door where I lead with my head as the door opens.
Turns out when I tried to get into my dorm room, the key didn't unlock the door. The worst part was, the hit to the head didn't stop me from continuing to walk.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

This is such an interesting thread! It makes me feel a little less embarrassed to admit my own Achilles' heel: driving.

I hate to drive; it scares me to death. It took me two tries to get my permit and three tries to get my license. Driving just DOES NOT MAKE SENSE to me. I feel like my brain just can't process the information that makes driving somewhat natural for most people. I can't keep directions straight, and I hate having to judge distances to determine whether I'm safe to merge into a lane or not. I'll go out of my way to find an intersection if that means I can avoid having to merge without a light onto a busy road.

It's so frightening to me. Driving is so dangerous; I feel that I could die or end up killing another driver at any moment. If I had a lot of money, I'd hire a personal driver and never drive again!

I'm such a nervous driver. Well, I was a nervous driver - I failed the test three times and then gave it up as a bad job. Twenty years ago. The strange thing is that it wasn't the physical driving skills that were a problem for me - it was always the interaction with other traffic and the way I got so damn nervous about it.

When I was driving, I always had that "can't process what's going on more than ten feet in front of the car" thing going on in my head. Never did get past that.

If the roads were empty but for me, I'd be fine. It's all those other buggers with cars messing it up for me...



Oh, and I can't dance. At all. It's not that I don't have rhythm, it's that I have no interest in dancing at all, so I refuse to put the effort into it. Works for me.

I'm actually a great driver. I can weave in and out of traffic with the best of them. Whether or not that's safe is up to you, but i know what my car can do.

Also i will echo your sentiment. I cannot dance. I have to rhythm. I may be "latin" but i didn't get the rhythm.

 

[Timby]

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.

Hey, I eat Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, but I'd certainly never think it to be "delicious."

Actually, I usually cry a bucket's worth of crocodile tears in shame whenever I ponder cooking up something like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and then I boil the pasta in those tears. It brings everything full-circle.

 

[Gepard]

^Plus, you don't have the salt them!

 

[kustirider2]

Mine is Maths. I hardly understand the basics and it makes me feel so stupid sometimes. However, I think I make up for it by being good at French and reading music.

 

[RandyS]

Mine is Maths. I hardly understand the basics and it makes me feel so stupid sometimes. However, I think I make up for it by being good at French and reading music.

Don't feel too stupid. I'm okay at math up to long division, then I'm hopeless. I was tested when I was nine, and discovered to have a math learning disability--as if my cerebral palsy disability wasn't enough......

 

[Tom Riley]

I can't do the whole whistling with your fingers in your mouth one. I can't think of any more right now... But I'm sure I will think of something later once I'm offline and it's too late to answer... well not too late, but I probably won't be able to type coherently because tonight is the last dance of the semester so... partying... right... But yeah, Whistling with the fingers... can't do...

 

[Ood Sigma]

I can't copy someone's physical movements by looking at them. This applies to dancing - I can't look at someone doing a step and then do it myself. I have to have it explained one step at a time, orally.

It's not just dancing, though. If I'm trying to put something together, wiggle into a tight spot, or make an elaborate hand motion, I have to figure it out for myself.

 

[Geckothan]

It's so frightening to me. Driving is so dangerous; I feel that I could die or end up killing another driver at any moment.

Buy a tank, then you only have to worry about killing other drivers.

 

[Jadzia]

Buying stuff online. For whatever reason it hardly ever works for me. Having the internet browser work properly with whatever data entry form is provided is the first obstacle... Then when it comes to buying stuff, I'm told a few days later that prices have changed, stuff is discontinued, or my payment didn't work for some reason. Alternatively, having to wait a week for a ebay auction to end, and then someone outbids me last minute anyway. Probably 9 times out of 10... Nobody wants my money. Trying to buy stuff online is just too much hassle.

 

[auntiehill]

^Amazon, baby. Amazon.

 

[Capn Flukie]

I can't drive either, because of the whole nearly half-blind thing. People always assume cuz I'm good on the computer that I have good eyes. Only need one good one! Driving you need both.

 

[RoJoHen]

I can't drive either, because of the whole nearly half-blind thing. People always assume cuz I'm good on the computer that I have good eyes. Only need one good one! Driving you need both.

Not necessarily... I know a lady who is completely blind in one eye and half-blind in the other eye and still manages to drive around. It blows my mind that she was able to pass the driver's test.

 

[Capn Flukie]

My eyes don't 'update' fast enough, fast moving objects are never where I see them. I was born completely blind with cataracts, and couldn't see at all until I was four. I now also have glaucoma (I see Summer Glau?) in both eyes, and they can't treat it because of those operations when I was a kid. No way in hell, I'm driving.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I'm very careful! I've only ever been involved in minor accidents. Like I said, I will cross parking lots to find intersections where I have the certainty of a light to guide me if at all possible. It's just all SCARY to me. I wish it came more naturally.

Crossing parking lots to get to a light is illegal here.

By here, i mean CA.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Ladies, gentlemen and assorted others, I have an announcement to make.

I, Deranged Nasat (not my real name), cannot ride a bike.

(You may now laugh)

Seriously, my sense of balance and co-ordination is very, very poor, and trying to balance on two small strips of rubber an inch thick without tipping over is beyond my capabilities. You people who can do so (that is, everyone else), are as graceful fairys to my eyes.

 

[RandyS]

Ladies, gentlemen and assorted others, I have an announcement to make.

I, Deranged Nasat (not my real name), cannot ride a bike.

(You may now laugh)

Seriously, my sense of balance and co-ordination is very, very poor, and trying to balance on two small strips of rubber an inch thick without tipping over is beyond my capabilities. You people who can do so (that is, everyone else), are as graceful fairys to my eyes.

Have you tried an adult trike? When I was ten, my grandparents bought me one (This was before my legs got so bad I needed the wheelchair more and more), and my mom taught me to ride that. It got me around town for the next seven years. A perfect way to get around the balance problem.

 

[Delta Belle]

Another person who can't make scrambled eggs, or a soft-boiled egg.

Rollerblading.

Swimming.

 

[Turbo]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who has trouble with eggs.