Easy things you suck at doing

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ I can't dance either. Well, except for certain line dances, but those probably don't count. Not cultured enough, I guess.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's all about the hips.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I have unfortunate memories of dancing - specifically, being taught, IN SIXTH GRADE, how to do the Hustle.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I learned how to do the Hustle in 8th grade or something. I can't remember it at all.

I can, however, rock the Electric Slide.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Texas Star and the Copperhead are my favorites. I can at least attempt to approach a rhythm while doing those. I tried to learn the Tush Push once but it's too fast.

 

[Kestra]

Yeah, I learned how to do the Hustle in 8th grade or something. I can't remember it at all.

I can, however, rock the Electric Slide.

I consider myself a decent dancer but I cannot do the Electric Slide. To be fair, I haven't tried in a long time but I somehow just never got the hang of it. I love dancing in general though!

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I learned how to do the Hustle in 8th grade or something. I can't remember it at all.

I can, however, rock the Electric Slide.

I consider myself a decent dancer but I cannot do the Electric Slide. To be fair, I haven't tried in a long time but I somehow just never got the hang of it. I love dancing in general though!

Really? It's so easy!

I guess it makes sense that it's in this thread.


If we ever meet up, I'm gonna teach you, teach you, teach you...I'll teach you the Electric Slide.

 

[thestrangequark]

Yeah, I learned how to do the Hustle in 8th grade or something. I can't remember it at all.

I can, however, rock the Electric Slide.

I consider myself a decent dancer but I cannot do the Electric Slide. To be fair, I haven't tried in a long time but I somehow just never got the hang of it. I love dancing in general though!

Really? It's so easy!

I guess it makes sense that it's in this thread.


If we ever meet up, I'm gonna teach you, teach you, teach you...I'll teach you the Electric Slide.

Now I have "Achy Breaky Heart" stuck in my head!

I can dance, snap, light matches (on my shoe, I'm awesome like that), cook, whistle, and do math in my head.

I cannot drive. I have a block, I think. I was in several car accidents growing up...maybe that's why?

 

[Gepard]

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.

Their au jus is essentially bullion, though, reconstituted at the resteraunt, so I can't see how it would vary that much.

 

[ChaosAngel]

I can't dance or catch things that are thrown at me. Although I love video games, my handeye coordination sucks.

 

[Lindley]

Ah yes, dancing. I've always had some kind of inherent aversion to the concept, so I never learned.

Well, I did take tap-dancing lessons when I was really little, but I have no idea how I survived that in retrospect.

 

[Tribbles]

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!

 

[RoJoHen]

If I had a lot of money, I'd hire a personal driver and never drive again!

I suggest you do this anyway. I don't want you anywhere near me on the road!

 

[Tribbles]

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.

 

[RoJoHen]

Driving comes so naturally to me that I don't understand how people can be bad at it, yet most people are.

 

[Tribbles]

You are lucky! I live in the kind of city where you simply must drive to get anywhere. There isn't much in the way of public transportation, so if I didn't drive, I'd be stuck at home. As I work, that isn't an option. Maybe I should clarify that when I said I feel I could kill anyone at any moment, I also mean that I feel anyone could kill me at any moment. I don't think I'm too paranoid in general, but I am when on the road. Accidents happen so quickly and easily, it seems.

My dad was in a severe accident when I was 12, so my difficulty with being comfortable at driving may stem from that. I do my best to take a deep breath and be rational about it, but I know I can only control my actions on the road, not the actions of other drivers.

 

[RoJoHen]

Just please tell me you don't live anywhere with a lot of snow.

 

[Tribbles]

Heh, I get no snow at all. I've seen snow twice in my life; I live on the Gulf Coast. However, I do often have to drive in heavy rain. Not fun, but I assume it's less stressful than driving in snow.

 

[RoJoHen]

I have a feeling you would die. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.

 

[ITL]

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.