Simple things you struggle with

cute geoge · 11-01-2021 1:28am

left and right .Ir just does not come to me .I have to pretend to write as in write with right hand to figure out what is right or left

Purple Mountain · 11-01-2021 1:41am

I'm not a ciotog but I can't hold a fork in my left hand. I have to use the left hand for the knife and the right for the fork.
If I'm cutting or buttering etc, I use my right hand to use the knife.
Weird, huh.

Purple Mountain · 11-01-2021 1:42am

cute geoge wrote: »

left and right .Ir just does not come to me .I have to pretend to write as in write with right hand to figure out what is right or left

I'm the same with east and west.
I always have to remind myself that Into the West was filmed in Galway and Galway is to the left as we look at the Irish map!

fineso.mom · 11-01-2021 1:46am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I'm not a ciotog but I can't hold a fork in my left hand. I have to use the left hand for the knife and the right for the fork.
If I'm cutting or guttering etc, I use my right hand to use the knife.
Weird, huh.

Same, and all my siblings do it too.

11-01-2021 1:57am

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Midnight. Is it am or pm ? Is it 00:00 or 24:00 ?

Its both...

howyanow · 11-01-2021 2:01am

My handwriting is shocking,was bad in school,terrible now!!

Pcgamer · 11-01-2021 2:01am

Premature ejaculation. I'm not male.

Oscar Bravo · 11-01-2021 2:07am

that ****n plastic they put around a box of tea bags

cj maxx · 11-01-2021 2:10am

Wesser wrote: »

Finding a husband

PM me Wesser, and anyone who thanked this. 1 husband, rarely used available

Richard Hillman · 11-01-2021 2:10am

Ziploc bags. Not the fancy ones with the zip on them but the ones where you have to seal at the top. The never work for me.

Foweva Awone · 11-01-2021 2:12am

Can't whistle.

Plasandrunt wrote: »

For example It takes me ages to open bin liners. Just this morning it must have taken me at least 15 minutes to manage to open a black bag when changing the rubbish. It feels like I've no grip on my fingers, I can't click my fingers so I've generally put my inability to perform a simple task down to this but it can be quite embarrassing when asking people in work to open up a bag for me.

Do you not use the old lickety-spit?

ruwithme · 11-01-2021 2:15am

Pcgamer wrote: »

Premature ejaculation. I'm not male.

You poor thing

Greentopia · 11-01-2021 2:24am

o1s1n wrote: »

Changing the ****ing duvet cover!

Many years ago I worked as an accommodation assistant in a 5 star hotel. Here's how I was taught to do it quickly: when you take off your duvet cover take it off so it's inside out. Leave it that way and launder it. When it's freshly laundered put your hands inside the duvet and grab the two top corners: right hand on top right corner, left hand on top left.

Now with your hands still holding the corners grab the two corresponding corners of your duvet and flip the duvet cover over the duvet still holding the corners. Shake it down and your cover is right side on. Button or tie the ends. Done.

I also found it fastest to start by picking the duvet up from the ground, then when it's covered keep holding the corners and throw the buttoned end of the duvet half way up the bed and throw the top end of the duvet where it should be at the top, then pull the lower half down so it all lays flat and finished...if you can follow that.

You can do it in less that 30 seconds if you do it often enough.

This explains the main part anyway:

Greentopia · 11-01-2021 2:34am

Remembering birthdays. Useless at it.

Small talk. Thankfully my partner hates small talk too-common where he's from, so we see eye to eye on that.

km991148 · 11-01-2021 2:37am

Greentopia wrote: »

Many years ago I worked as an accommodation assistant in a 5 star hotel. Here's how I was taught to do it quickly: when you take off your duvet cover take it off so it's inside out. Leave it that way and launder it. When it's freshly laundered put your hands inside the duvet and grab the two top corners: right hand on top right corner, left hand on top left.

Now with your hands still holding the corners grab the two corresponding corners of your duvet and flip the duvet cover over the duvet still holding the corners. Shake it down and your cover is right side on. Button or tie the ends. Done.

I also found it fastest to start by picking the duvet up from the ground, then when it's covered keep holding the corners and throw the buttoned end of the duvet half way up the bed and throw the top end of the duvet where it should be at the top, then pull the lower half down so it all lays flat and finished...if you can follow that.

You can do it in less that 30 seconds if you do it often enough.

This explains the main part anyway:

1.30 in for the actual duvet change!

Doesn't everyone do it this way?

gogo · 11-01-2021 2:38am

Directions, genuinely once got lost three miles from my home place, the home place that I lived in for 20+ years.. my mother had to tell me to pull over and sent some old farmer up the road after me... I get lost with a friggen Sat nav on... the soundtrack to every trip I take is ‘recalculating route’

Greentopia · 11-01-2021 2:42am

km991148 wrote: »

1.30 in for the actual duvet change!

Doesn't everyone do it this way?

Apparently not.

Surreptitious · 11-01-2021 2:44am

I put the duvet on the floor and stretch out the cover on the bed. I then push the duvet into the corners and drag the cover up hitting the corners at the top. Flatten it out and button it up. Simples. I didn't watch the video but it's the same way I'd imagine

Wesekn. · 11-01-2021 2:49am

Car dashboards, never really got the hang of them

Weather forecasts, all I understand is frost and rain

Strumms · 11-01-2021 2:51am

Pcgamer wrote: »

Premature ejaculation. I'm not male.

You need more practice.

Piano, I need more practice too.

11-01-2021 3:29am

Making a tie for the life of me I can’t do it

Surreptitious · 11-01-2021 3:41am

Deleted User wrote: »

Making a tie for the life of me I can’t do it

We had to wear them in school, that is how I learned. The elastic ones used to sag and looked awful so I got a real one.

Sgt Hartman · 11-01-2021 8:42am

I can't whistle for the life of me.
I also have this really awkward way of holding a fork, I grasp the handle as if I'm holding a stick. It's the only way I can use it

Smee_Again · 11-01-2021 8:59am

Big walls, I've just never been able to get over them.

silliussoddius · 11-01-2021 9:02am

Snapping my fingers

valoren · 11-01-2021 9:05am

Doing "the floss" dance.

angel eyes 2012 · 11-01-2021 9:13am

Reducing sugar intake. It has been 3 days since my last piece of chocolate and the headaches are unbearable.

Mister Vain · 11-01-2021 9:21am

I can't drink alcohol with food. I just feel too full.

SineadSpears · 11-01-2021 10:05am

Purple Mountain wrote: »

I'm the same with east and west.
I always have to remind myself that Into the West was filmed in Galway and Galway is to the left as we look at the Irish map!

Lol I'm the same with east & west. I'm in Dublin so I'm clearly not in the Wesht of Ireland. & I know I'm not in the North or even the South, & yet I still have to go through all that thought process to figure out the difference between East & west. Every single time.

Ulster & Munster I'm ok with, but have to put some thought into Leinster & Connacht. Figure connacht doesn't sound very Dublin City, so I'm left with guessing I'm in Leinster

mistress_gi · 11-01-2021 11:16am

Geography in general, wether it's directions, knowing where i am (if a new place of course).
Needless is to say i go in a lot of adventures, especially if going to a new place.

Gruffalux · 11-01-2021 11:29am

I have car blindness. Cannot recognise them. It does not matter how fancy or expensive your car is unless it is purple and remarkably zany I will have forgotten what it looks like by the time you drive off and will never recognise you on the road by your car. It is nothing personal - occasionally I struggle to find my own car in a packed car park.
Also donkey - apparently dunkey is not how they are pronounced but fcuk you and the dunkey you rode in on!

Sonics2k · 11-01-2021 11:30am

Whistling. 36 years old and trying to learn for bloody years now and just can't get it right.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 11-01-2021 11:51am

Plasandrunt wrote: »

What are things that are generally seen as simple by others that you struggle with?

For example It takes me ages to open bin liners. Just this morning it must have taken me at least 15 minutes to manage to open a black bag when changing the rubbish. It feels like I've no grip on my fingers, I can't click my fingers so I've generally put my inability to perform a simple task down to this but it can be quite embarrassing when asking people in work to open up a bag for me.

Lick your thumb and fore finger and then wipe them together to dry them slightly then try and open bin liner,

Purple Mountain · 11-01-2021 12:01pm

cj maxx wrote: »

PM me Wesser, and anyone who thanked this. 1 husband, rarely used available

We would need to see your resume though first.. Headshots and full body shots too...

SineadSpears · 11-01-2021 12:09pm

Jokes are another one I struggle with. 99% of the time I won't get the joke. Even after the joke has to be explained to me, there's a few seconds delay for it register

Tigger1 · 11-01-2021 12:22pm

cute geoge wrote: »

left and right .Ir just does not come to me .I have to pretend to write as in write with right hand to figure out what is right or left

I am the same! When driving I have to say right left right and move my right hand( as it's the hand I write with!) when someone or satnav says turn right.
Had to train myself not to say it out loud for my driving test!

Bobblehats · 11-01-2021 12:25pm

SineadSpears wrote: »

Jokes are another one I struggle with. 99% of the time I won't get the joke. Even after the joke has to be explained to me, there's a few seconds delay for it register

The only true comedy in this life is spontaneous. And unintended

AMKC · 11-01-2021 12:40pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Card games. Have to be taught the rules every time.

Same here and never enjoyed card games anyway except snap.

Mister Vain wrote: »

Could never get that hang of poker. Same with pool and snooker. I never know which ball to hit.

I think poker is an evil game. Would never play it.

Pool is easy and snooker is a bit more complicated with a bigger table. Been a while since I played either do.

AMKC · 11-01-2021 12:50pm

silliussoddius wrote: »

Snapping my fingers

That's easy.

angel eyes 2012 wrote: »

Reducing sugar intake. It has been 3 days since my last piece of chocolate and the headaches are unbearable.

Awe just have some or maybe take a panel or a nurofen if you have some. Why suffer when you do not have too.

Gruffalux wrote: »

I have car blindness. Cannot recognise them. It does not matter how fancy or expensive your car is unless it is purple and remarkably zany I will have forgotten what it looks like by the time you drive off and will never recognise you on the road by your car. It is nothing personal - occasionally I struggle to find my own car in a packed car park.
Also donkey - apparently dunkey is not how they are pronounced but fcuk you and the dunkey you rode in on!

Awe that's a pity. Obviously they do interest your brain and it just seems them as objects that do a job and that's it.

Sonics2k wrote: »

Whistling. 36 years old and trying to learn for bloody years now and just can't get it right.

Yep I can do that but not the two fingered whistle thing. Could never do that whistle thing.

mistress_gi wrote: »

Geography in general, wether it's directions, knowing where i am (if a new place of course).
Needless is to say i go in a lot of adventures, especially if going to a new place.

That sounds like fun.
I want to go on adventures with you and we can get lost together lol.
Geography do in school I loved it. Was one of my stronger subjects that and history.

LeBash · 11-01-2021 12:52pm

Making a bed...... 45 mins each time. Im ok with the mattress thingy and the pillow cases, the duvet cover takes me a lifetime

WesternZulu · 11-01-2021 12:55pm

Left and right particularly if I am involved in other mental activity I have to take a few seconds get my bearings.

Not a huge problem until I'm driving and approaching something like a T junction or crossroads and someone shouts at the last second "LEFT" and my mind shuts down and inevitably I'll turn right.

I wouldn't mind but I have no issues with east and west.

11-01-2021 12:59pm

AMKC wrote: »

I think poker is an evil game. Would never play it.

The game is utterly harmless, no more dangerous than ludo, it's the gambling which people think is an absolute necessity to accompany poker all the time is where the problem arises. If you have to do both, ie play and gamble, you can play with broken matchsticks

SineadSpears · 11-01-2021 1:38pm

Bobblehats wrote: »

The only true comedy in this life is spontaneous. And unintended

huh?

ablelocks · 11-01-2021 4:32pm

Greentopia wrote: »

Remembering birthdays. Useless at it.
.

ditto.

if only there was a device or an app of some sort that you could programme in birthdays and have it remind you in advance or better still, would automagically send birthday greetings

PMBC · 11-01-2021 4:42pm

De Bhál wrote: »

How many days are in each month. Bar 28 for February, I have no idea about the rest. As in, some have 31 some have 30 etc....

Just something I must have missed out learning when young.

This rhyme from childhood I still use
30 days hath September
April, June and November
All the rest have 31
Except February 28, but once in four
February has one day more

ShatterAlan · 11-01-2021 5:26pm

Rustyman101 wrote: »

opening those little plastic bags for fruit n veg now you cant lick your fingers !

Go ahead and lick your fingers.

BREAKOUT!!

Carpe Diem, young rebel!

ShatterAlan · 11-01-2021 5:28pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I’m 47, and I can’t read an analog clock. I understand the concept fine, but I can’t just look at one and instantly tell the time. Ive had a digital watch since I was 7, and I’ve never been in a position where I’ve had to rely on an analog clock to tell me the time.

So when you're told to turn something clockwise or anti-clockwise your head explodes?

:pac:

ShatterAlan · 11-01-2021 6:15pm

Pcgamer wrote: »

Premature ejaculation. I'm not male.

You're obviously just too hot for your own good. Nobody can last more than a couple of seconds.

ShatterAlan · 11-01-2021 7:09pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

I can't drink alcohol with food. I just feel too full.

Wine with a meal, yes. Beer? Forget it.

Snails pace · 11-01-2021 7:42pm

When I'm playing cards I find it difficult to know the difference between clubs and spades. I know what they look like but I mix up the two names.

Simple things you struggle with

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