Common skills you can't do.

[kalamalja]

I can't ride a bicycle anymore. They say you can't unlearn the progress you've made, but maybe I'm the exception that proves the rule.

Something as simple as reading a book is also a pain in the arse. I can read a book from cover to cover, without ever remembering/learning a word from it. Not that I usually suck at concentrating on things, but I just can't forge an image of things in my imagination, from a bunch of random words some stranger wrote.

 

[Username Redacted]

Definitely can't dance and I wouldn't have faith in my ability to swim either.

Also for all of those who have trouble/can't swallow pills I used to be like you. That said I got tired of having to crush medicine up and/or ask if the medicine I was being prescribed came in a liquid form. I eventually got tired of this as both of those options taste terrible and the second often isn't available. So over time (it's not like I sat down one day and decided that this was it) I worked on being able to swallow various food objects until I was eventually comfortable swallowing pills. My progression probably went (I think; it's been a while) small gummy candy -> larger gummy candy -> capsules -> coated tablets -> non-coated tablets. Swallowing pills is very much a learn-able skill.

 

[nyankaty]

Pill swallowing people: I found that taking pills with a slightly thicker liquid like orange juice makes taking pills SOOO much easier. You can't feel them touching your throat and tonsils as much so it helps calm that reflexive clenching of the throat that makes swallowing pills so hard. No guarantee that this would help anyone else but hey, it's worth a try. Just take a good big mouthful of orange juice, chocolate milk, whatever thick-ish non-carbonated liquid you like and send the pill back with it. You probably won't even notice.

 

[Shraggler]

Personally, I have never, EVER, been able to roll my "r's" like stereotypical hispanic folks do when they shout "Ariba!" Never could. Almost everyone I've ever met can do it, and equally annoying is that almost everyone I've ever met has tried to GET me to do it when they heard I couldn't. Now I don't even try. It just makes me feel foolish, and if it hasn't worked 4000 times yet, I doubt it will work on the 4001st.

Neither can I and it's incredibly frustrating. I can speak some French and retain a bit of Spanish from the third grade, but I can't roll my "r's" in any way. The only way I can approximate it is at the back of my throat with the rear of my tongue, but it doesn't have the same effect at all. It sounds more like I've got something in my throat. From what I understand, it's supposed to take place near the middle or front of the tongue and roof of the mouth, but I've never been able to do it.

As someone who's fascinated with language, the inability to roll "r's" is like having a permanent amateur badge.

 

[mindfaQ]

Hmmm... I sometimes can't understand which words people are saying when the it is generally a bit loud, while others seem to understand them without a problem.
I can't recognize people driving inside of cars as quickly as other seem to be able to.

Can't swallow pills. Really fucks me over when it comes to taking medicine. I've tried it with water and it still won't go down, the water will. But not the god damn pill I need.

Try rolling your tongue like a ship and put the pill in the "pit", then just drink something (still holding the tongue like that when you are starting to let the drink flow). Chances are you won't care about the pill and proceed with the correct tongue movement to swallow the water. That's what I did when I had problems swallowing pills. Not that I need this technique anymore, I have no problem with swallowing pills now whatsoever.

 

[Luther Strode]

How would one go about opening beer with a lighter? I can do it with a key no problem, but I can't see how you'd manage it with a lighter without irreparably damaging the lighter itself.

Back in the Days I opened bottle of beer with smartphone Samsung Galaxy Mini. Not even a scratch, but it was years of practicing with lighters and other objects.

As for some above - one try more CAN make a difference in doing someting. To ma 18 I wasn't able to say one simple "r", sometime it came up with words, but mostly ppl said I have "french accent". Now I can do Arrrrrrriba!
I couldn't snap fingers until I get it some day - also you have to have completely dry fingers.
I couldn't dance - but few beers and some girls wiling to dance makes magic.

Do your best ppl and try, if fail Try Again.

But I just simply can't remember names of ppl I just met. Even after few times I forgetting them if I don't say them often in head. Problem is when I met 3 or so ppl I'm just say "you" coz don't remember them. Even thou I can remember very hard things very easily.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

Finesse

Not in games, not in life... I don't know, it feels bad man.

 

[SadisticFire]

Tie my shoes. I kid you not, no one has taught me how to tie my shoes. My father keeps getting angier and angier at me, but then no one will teach me how to tie them :c
Though it's alright, I never trip them.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I can't dance at all. I have no sense of rhythm, I move slowly and all of my joints are pretty stiff so I simply can't move to music at all.
I can fake slow dance by just rocking side to side but thats about it.

I can't swim, even after a couple years of people trying to teach me. All I learned how to do was prevent myself from sinking like a rock by inflating myself with air, actual movement is still beyond me xD

I have trouble flattening cardboard boxes to put out for recycling. No idea why but I just can't do it and end up ripping the thing to shreds in anger.

Never been able to do a pull-up or use monkey bars. I have and have always had a huge, heavy body and short scrawny arms. Not even weight lifting helped!

I can't drive, when I get behind the wheel of a car I seize up and forget how to work it at best or have a panic attack at worst. If I'm ever able to get myself driving and on a road I can't keep my speed consistent and I am always speeding. I usually can't feel the pedal under my foot unless I take my shoe off and even then I can't control my speed. I also suck at braking.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I couldn't, and most likely still can't due to now being able to reach the ground when I try, do the monkey bars. No matter how hard I tried, I was that one kid at school that could never do them.

Yeah, same.

Fuck monkey bars.

Though now I tower over most people, so I have no need of monkey bars for whatever sick and twisted monkey-barring purpose they were designed for.

 

[GlorySeeker]

I cannot sing. I can apparently harmonize, but not when im actively trying . And I cannot Dance. (Though I can play DDR) lol

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Washing dishes.

Though I think that's not too abnormal for my particular demographic.

Unwillingless is something else than inability

Even under duress I have to constantly ask for device on which chemical to use, how much, what scrubbing utensil should I use, etc...

 

[Alpha Maeko]

I can't go outside.

Cuz I'm a vampire. Shhhhh

 

[frizzlebyte]

For some unknown reason my fingers lack the dexterity to tie knots well.

That's your story, and you're sticking to it, amiright?



I'm not afraid to say I just can't tie knots for shit. Mostly a lack of will to learn how to do it quickly. I can do simple ones if I take the time. Tying my shoes is the only knot I can do with any alacrity at all, though.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

I have a serious tendency to leave work until the very last moment possible.

Planning stuff accordingly is hard for me, I often just forget my agenda exists, even if I try my best to use it.

 

[Doom-Slayer]

I cant/dont drive and probably never will. (Im 22).

Reasoning. I learnt to drive with my dad, who decided the best way to teach me, was to let me drive around a carpark for 30 minutes. Then he decided after all this "experience" I should drive around high speed windy back country roads with blind corners and where you need to be traveling quite fast. Ya no.

 

[Rblade]

Washing dishes.

Though I think that's not too abnormal for my particular demographic.

that sounds more of a case of a lethal lack of care, not a lack of skill. because if you can't hold one thing in water while rubbing on it with another thing you have bigger problems in the motor skill department. Which I can understand because it's some mindnumbing shit.

I don't think there is any really basic skills I don't have down, unless you count fashion sense, I guess that counts. Thank god I'm a dude and there is all kind of nifty conventions.

 

[NearLifeExperience]

Washing dishes.

Though I think that's not too abnormal for my particular demographic.

Unwillingless is something else than inability

Even under duress I have to constantly ask for device on which chemical to use, how much, what scrubbing utensil should I use, etc...

Step 1, put dishes in hot water with detergent. Step 2, wash them. Step 3, dry them. Et voila, you're done!

A monkey could do the dishes, so I can't see why you couldn't.

 

[RoonMian]

How would one go about opening beer with a lighter? I can do it with a key no problem, but I can't see how you'd manage it with a lighter without irreparably damaging the lighter itself.

You grab the bottle with indexfinger and thumb directly under the cap and use the lighter as lever with your index finger as pivotal point. You don't damage the lighter. You can even do it with your mobile without damaging it if you get the hang of it. I just never did. I'm too dumb. I have to hand my bottle to my father for him to open it for me like I was 9.

Captcha: chocolate milk. Thanks captcha. At least that I can drink without help.

 

[Alcamonic]

Geography in general. Seriously, so many names.

Ironically, I have beyond excellent sense of direction and can remember areas well that I visited years ago. Just don't ask me where...