What Simple Skill/Ability Do You Lack?!?

[CALIFLADY]

Last week, I was at a party and people started to talk about boiling eggs.

Now, I can boil water and I can make toast. I can steam veggies and broil salmon. My special talent lies in making homemade yeast breads.

I can drive a stick shift car. I can read an analog clock. I can do jigsaw puzzles.

But for the life of me, I can't boil an egg.

How 'bout you? Do you lack some elementary skill that is seemingly intuitive to most everyone else?

 

[mommytotwo]

I can't sew. Was tought many of times and I can't figure it out.

 

[cgcw]

I can't draw.....not for the life of me. Even my stick people look pretty sad.

 

[doxdogy]

Another one that can't draw. I have a hard time drawing a straight line with a ruler. In the area of cooking, I can't fry chicken to save my life. I either overcook or undercook it.

 

[chell]

Originally posted by cgcw
I can't draw.....not for the life of me. Even my stick people look pretty sad.

Can you draw a straight line with a ruler? I sure can't.

 

[KimR]

Oh my gosh, there are so many supposedly 'simple' skills that I lack: For a start, I cannot follow nor give directions. It's something to do with 'linear thinking'....it just eludes me. Also I lack basic organizational skills: my car is a mess, my house is a mess and I am constantly losing things. Finally, despite the fact that I am a female (with 3 children no less), I simply CANNOT multi-task. I am exactly like a man in this regard: I can do one thing at a time and ONLY that one thing.

 

[CEDmom]

As far as cooking skills I'm pretty good with everything except when it comes it cooking meat. It's either so rare it's still mooing or it's so well done it would make a good hockey puck .

As far as general skills, I can't whistle or snap my fingers .

 

[barbeml]

...like a "grown up."

I still make bunny ears.

Am I the only one????

 

[Snowysmom]

I can't knit even though my mother tried to teach me many times. She blamed it on my being left handed. Also, I cannot draw at all, not even a straight line with a ruler. In school the art teaacher never bothered to stop to see what I was doing. She knew I was hopeless.

 

[dizneenut]

I can't draw, can't sew, and I can't fry chicken or eggs.

 

[Saffron]

I can't spell worth a darn. I can't draw worth a darn ... I'm right there with people who can't draw stick people. I can't put air into a tire ... I let more air out! I can't (and won't learn how to) change a tire. I never ever could do a summersault, not even as a kiddo!

When it comes to cooking I can't cook red meat either! I just won't do it anymore (I don't like to anyway ) and I can't make chocolate chip cookies worth a darn ... they always come out raised and hard.

 

[Disney Ella]

I can't blow up a balloon.

 

[pat fan]

Hoo-boy, at least I'll never actualy see any of you,so it's ok if I let out my embaressing secrets.

1. NO sense of direction. I mean it. I've been to our local malls a million times in my life but have never driven there. I know! I know! It's pathetic,but it's the truth...I have NO sense of direction.

2. Can't tell left from right. Must have some influence on flaw #1. I failed my first driving test when I went the opposite way the instructor told me to. I thought my mom (in the back seat) was going to die!

On the up-side I can cook, pretty well, too. So if any of you who can't cook would give me a ride to the mall, I'll cook dinner for you. Deal?

 

[Saffron]

LOL! I'll take you to the mall if you put air in my driver's side back tire for me!

 

[Fantasmic303]

I can't scream. I remember when I was little, my friends next door would scream so the whole neighborhood could hear them. I can't. I can maybe yell or hoot a little, but I can't scream. Not even for my boys - I don't think I even peeped for Clay last night!!

(Let's not make that an open invitation to any of the purse-snatchers who lurk at the Dis!!)


I also can't dance. It's an inability, not just a matter of I don't dance well. I think maybe I could do choreographed steps if I was taught, but none of this "let's dance for fun at a club" business. (Although, for the record, I could probably 'bust a move' or two if Clay insisted!!)

 

[debster812]

Originally posted by pat fan
Hoo-boy, at least I'll never actualy see any of you,so it's ok if I let out my embaressing secrets.

1. NO sense of direction. I mean it. I've been to our local malls a million times in my life but have never driven there. I know! I know! It's pathetic,but it's the truth...I have NO sense of direction.

2. Can't tell left from right. Must have some influence on flaw #1. I failed my first driving test when I went the opposite way the instructor told me to. I thought my mom (in the back seat) was going to die!

On the up-side I can cook, pretty well, too. So if any of you who can't cook would give me a ride to the mall, I'll cook dinner for you. Deal?

DEAL!!!! Great sense of direction here. And I'm in MA. Even better if I am 'on the ground' walking around.

Like CEDMom, I cannot whistle (like whistle a tune), but I can do that oh so ladylike stick my fingers in my mouth and do an ear piercing whistle.

 

[KimR]

I'll take you, too, but you'll have to first shovel all of the junk out the back seat and then tell me how to get there (but do NOT try to talk to me while I am trying to make a left-hand turn)!

 

[MelCald]

According to dh, I can't read a map. We were in Dc a few weeks ago and because dh was driving and I had the map, we drove in circles for a while!!! I guess it has something to do with me not knowing my left from right.

Melissa

 

[JerseyJanice]

Saffron, I can't change a tire (I hope I never have to!) or put air in my car's tires.

I don't drive in reverse well at all; I could never back into a parking spot or driveway.

And I can't parallel park either.

Now, I guess you guys think I'm a terrible driver, but I'm really not. I swear!

 

[ilovepcot]

Never learned to do a cartwheel or blow a bubble.