Easy things you suck at doing

[Holdfast]

The other thing I can't do is smell. I have no sense of smell. I cannot ever recall smelling anything, in my entire life. Although if I stick my nose directly over a bottle of ammonia, I sort of 'taste' it in the back of my throat and feel my nasal passages clearing out. That's the closest I get to smelling anything.

Complete anosmia? That would annoy me, but worse would be not being able to enjoy food. I hate the lack of taste when I have the snuffles and my nose is blocked.

I prefer my eggs scrambled. I can't make them that way either. I always end up burning the damn things, and/or they stick to the $)(#*^ pan.

Coat your skillet with non-stick spray or butter before you begin cooking the eggs. If they're burning before they're done, you're setting the heat too high.

Also -- after you beat the eggs, but before you put them in the skillet, add a small amount of water to them and mix it in. This will make the eggs fluffier.

Yeah, I prefer to add a bit of milk but I suppose water would have the same effect.

I sometimes add a little cream, just 'cos it makes them richer

But really, it's not necessary as long as you use a little butter in the pan first.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

The other thing I can't do is smell. I have no sense of smell. I cannot ever recall smelling anything, in my entire life. Although if I stick my nose directly over a bottle of ammonia, I sort of 'taste' it in the back of my throat and feel my nasal passages clearing out. That's the closest I get to smelling anything.

Complete anosmia? That would annoy me, but worse would be not being able to enjoy food. I hate the lack of taste when I have the snuffles and my nose is blocked.

I can still taste...but I have no way of knowing if my sense of taste is like everyone else's since I've always been this way and have no point of reference.

Everyone I tell this to asks if I can taste food...but I've been this way all my life, and so I don't even make the association between taste and smell. To me, they are completely separate (because I don't do one of them)...but it seems like to the rest of the world, they are intimately intertwined.

I would love to be able to smell though. I have always wondered what it was like.

 

[Jadzia]

The other thing I can't do is smell. I have no sense of smell. I cannot ever recall smelling anything, in my entire life. Although if I stick my nose directly over a bottle of ammonia, I sort of 'taste' it in the back of my throat and feel my nasal passages clearing out. That's the closest I get to smelling anything.

Do apples, onions, and raw potatoes taste the same to you?

The only difference between the flavours of these three is supposedly their smell.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

The other thing I can't do is smell. I have no sense of smell. I cannot ever recall smelling anything, in my entire life. Although if I stick my nose directly over a bottle of ammonia, I sort of 'taste' it in the back of my throat and feel my nasal passages clearing out. That's the closest I get to smelling anything.

Do apples, onions, and raw potatoes taste the same to you?

No. Why?

Apples taste sweet, onions are bland at first with an occasional sweet taste in there...but a very strong aftertaste that makes my mouth hurt, potatoes are bland, and always stay bland (no aftertaste).

 

[Holdfast]

I would love to be able to smell though. I have always wondered what it was like.

Well, believe me, if you've ever had to take public transport, you've been in a happier place than the rest of us. So that's one point in your favour!

 

[Theodore Jay Miller]

I never learned to swim or ride a bicycle.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

I can't make pancakes to save my life.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I would love to be able to smell though. I have always wondered what it was like.

Well, believe me, if you've ever had to take public transport, you've been in a happier place than the rest of us. So that's one point in your favour!

This is what I hear from numerous sources.

Also, the guys I have lived with appreciate this quality, because I don't smell farts. They are just 'funny sounds' to me.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I can't make pancakes to save my life.

The only thing i can make is reservations.

(careful with that joke, it's an antique.)

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I can't make pancakes to save my life.

Two words: Krusteaz Mix.

All you have to do is add water and have some butter on hand for the skillet.

These pancakes are practically fool-proof, and very tasty.

 

[An Officer]

I can't swim, but that's simply a lack of practice.

 

[JustKate]

I get my left and right confused. I'm one of those people who will point right but say "Turn left." I know the difference, and if I don't think about it at all, I'm correct, and if I think about it a lot, I'm also correct, but if I think about it the wrong amount, I'm wrong.

It's not that I have a particularly bad sense of direction - I mean, I can figure out north and south and east and west - it's just that left and right thing. Very annoying for me and extremely annoying for anybody I'm navigating for, which is why when I navigate, I stick to north, south, east and west.

 

[trampledamage]

I get my left and right confused. I'm one of those people who will point right but say "Turn left." I know the difference, and if I don't think about it at all, I'm correct, and if I think about it a lot, I'm also correct, but if I think about it the wrong amount, I'm wrong.

It's not that I have a particularly bad sense of direction - I mean, I can figure out north and south and east and west - it's just that left and right thing. Very annoying for me and extremely annoying for anybody I'm navigating for, which is why when I navigate, I stick to north, south, east and west.

I shall have to try that approach, because I have exactly the same problem when I'm doing directions - I randomly get left and right the wrong way round. Annoys the hell out of me when people then say "Don't you know your left from your right?" Yes I do. I just get them wrong sometimes...

 

[JustKate]

Didn't you say that you have trouble following directions, Trample/Snow? Me too. I expect this is why. I'm good at maps, though - because of the north-south-east-west thing, I think.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

There are people still lost to this day from directions I gave them. But it's their own fault for getting lost to begin with and then asking some random fool for directions.

I can't swim. I don't consider it easy, though. Humans aren't made for the water. What other primates swim? I've thought about learning, but drowning is such an easy suicide option, so why learn a way to opt out of that?

 

[trampledamage]

Didn't you say that you have trouble following directions, Trample/Snow? Me too. I expect this is why. I'm good at maps, though - because of the north-south-east-west thing, I think.

Yeah, maps = good, directions = bad

 

[Leroy]

Calculus, math so easy a child could do it yet I struggle with it.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Calculus, math so easy a child could do it yet I struggle with it.

I have always struggled with it. I never did find it easy, not at all. Where'd you get the idea that it's "so easy a child could do it"?

 

[RoJoHen]

Considering most people don't take Calculus until their senior year of high school or college, I certainly wouldn't say it's "so easy a child could do it."

 

[Major Chord]

I cannot whistle. When I was a kid, I tried and tried...to no avail.

The other thing I can't do is smell. I have no sense of smell. I cannot ever recall smelling anything, in my entire life. Although if I stick my nose directly over a bottle of ammonia, I sort of 'taste' it in the back of my throat and feel my nasal passages clearing out. That's the closest I get to smelling anything.

Same here. My mother is the same way, although she lost her's after a bout with Mono, I believe. No clue how that could cause it...but what ever. I just never seemed to have one, or at least, a very dulled one. My sinuses get cleared from spicy food...and I can kind of "taste the air" for simple scents/flavors, like sweet, salty and whatnot, but other than that, I can't differentiate between scents.

Food tastes just fine to me...I certainly eat enough of it.