Simple things you struggle with

Plasandrunt · 10-01-2021 3:42pm #1

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.

simongurnick · 10-01-2021 3:43pm

Can't peel a spud with a knife. Dont judge me.

McGinniesta · 10-01-2021 3:44pm

Other people

Pauliedragon · 10-01-2021 3:58pm

I can't tie balloons for some bizarre reason.

Wesser · 10-01-2021 3:59pm

Finding a husband

Feisar · 10-01-2021 4:06pm

AM/PM

beertons · 10-01-2021 4:06pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I can't tie balloons for some bizarre reason.

Thank god I not the only one.

Can't blow bubbles, with bubble gum either.

Junkyard Tom · 10-01-2021 4:07pm

Counting change while a cashier waits.

o1s1n · 10-01-2021 4:08pm

Changing the ****ing duvet cover!

fmpisces · 10-01-2021 5:31pm

simongurnick wrote: »

Can't peel a spud with a knife. Dont judge me.

And on the flip side I cannot use a potato peeler!! Shocking thing for a woman to admit

PARlance · 10-01-2021 5:41pm

Operate a tin opener. A lefties kryptonite.

Herself would add, replacing an empty toilet roll.

Thelonious Monk · 10-01-2021 5:42pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Changing the ****ing duvet cover!

This stresses me out to no end, pity there's no duvet cover changer service that comes to your door.

Anyway my one is sleep, although things are improving lately.

bodhrandude · 10-01-2021 5:43pm

Losing the end of the sellotape, when wrapping Xmas presents you'll know what I mean.

All that fandango · 10-01-2021 5:45pm

Numbers. Struggled massively with maths in school. My brain just short circuits when I have to deal with numbers.

Esse85 · 10-01-2021 5:46pm

Patience

10-01-2021 5:54pm

Buttering bread without tearing it asunder.

Rustyman101 · 10-01-2021 5:55pm

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

Sam Hain · 10-01-2021 5:56pm

Directions. All of types of direction, sense of, in life and one.

fmpisces · 10-01-2021 5:58pm

Rustyman101 wrote: »

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

A tip I read somewhere online suggested to rub the bag across a product in the cool section (like the salad/veg bags). It works!
Or if you carry one of those little bottles of hand sanitiser with you, just use a bit of that on your fingers.

PARlance · 10-01-2021 6:04pm

FHFM50 wrote: »

As someone with severe ADHD and depression, I struggle with just about everything.

Compassionate responses.

TheMilkyPirate · 10-01-2021 6:07pm

Esse85 wrote: »

Patience

Same I have zero patience. Zero.

notsoyoungwan · 10-01-2021 6:36pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I can't tie balloons for some bizarre reason.

I can’t blow up balloons. But if someone blows them up, I can tie them.

Hellokitty1212 · 10-01-2021 6:39pm

Soon to enter my seventh decade and can I explain what the mornings do when the clocks go back or forward ??

Can I heck!!

Pauliedragon · 10-01-2021 6:41pm

notsoyoungwan wrote: »

I can’t blow up balloons. But if someone blows them up, I can tie them.

Let's set up an event planning business. I'll blow them up you can tie them.

10-01-2021 6:42pm

Asking other people to do their jobs

Gregor Samsa · 10-01-2021 6:45pm

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.

OneLungDavy · 10-01-2021 6:50pm

Parallel parking.

.anon. · 10-01-2021 6:50pm

Touch screen technology.

jmlad2020 · 10-01-2021 6:55pm

Small Talk... Water cooler chat...

Thank **** we get to Work from home now.

Mister Vain · 10-01-2021 7:17pm

Voice activated products. They can't understand my bogger accent.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-01-2021 7:26pm

Feisar wrote: »

AM/PM

Tonight the clock will strike 12.
Before it will be 11:59 pm , after it will be 12:01 am

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

Capt'n Midnight · 10-01-2021 7:31pm

Esse85 wrote: »

Patience

Deal the cards out into a circle of 12 piles of 4 cards like the face of a clock.

Put the remaining 4 in the centre.

Pick up the card in the centre and put it face up under the corresponding clock position. Jack - Queen - King are 11 - 12 - centre.

Pick up the card in that pile and so on and so forth

Zaney · 10-01-2021 7:53pm

Run - my brain won’t let me do it. I can run if playing a sport like tennis or football, or run after my kids, but ask me to just run and I just can’t.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-01-2021 7:58pm

Zaney wrote: »

Run - my brain won’t let me do it. I can run if playing a sport like tennis or football, or run after my kids, but ask me to just run and I just can’t.

Running fast is just leaning forward without falling on your snot.

SineadSpears · 10-01-2021 8:13pm

Driving - it's not exactly simple to learn, but once you learn its like riding a bike & becomes second nature. But Jesus I hate driving.

Directions - hopeless with directions. Bad enough me trying to figure out how to get to where I've to go, but then to try find my way back, not a chance. Can't remember a single thing I've passed before. so its a whole new stressful task trying to find my way back.

I've a smart TV about 2 years now. Keep forgetting that I have all the apps on the TV & I still use my phone to cast everything. There's no need for the chromecast in the TV but I keep forgetting to take it out

Esho · 10-01-2021 8:37pm

Mister Vain wrote: »

Voice activated products. They can't understand my bogger accent.

I put on a southsider accent- they are programmed to understand it.

AMKC · 10-01-2021 8:42pm

Pauliedragon wrote: »

I can't tie balloons for some bizarre reason.

Well at least you are half way there I can not and never could blow balloons up.

beertons wrote: »

Thank god I not the only one.

Can't blow bubbles, with bubble gum eith;)er.

Me either.

o1s1n wrote: »

Changing the ****ing duvet cover!

That's easy peasy yes it takes a lot of effort in a way but easy to do.

AMKC · 10-01-2021 8:44pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Tonight the clock will strike 12.
Before it will be 11:59 pm , after it will be 12:01 am

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

Midnight is am. Midday is pm. It starts at the beginning of every twelfth hour.

whisky_galore · 10-01-2021 8:47pm

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

Mister Vain · 10-01-2021 9:13pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

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

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

iamwhoiam · 10-01-2021 9:14pm

Rock , paper scissors !! I never got it

notsoyoungwan · 10-01-2021 9:18pm

Hellokitty1212 wrote: »

Soon to enter my seventh decade and can I explain what the mornings do when the clocks go back or forward ??

Can I heck!!

Spring forward, fall back- this helps me remember. But I still have to work it out by saying “so what was 7am is now only 6am so I get an extra hour in bed” etc.

New2Dubs · 10-01-2021 9:20pm

Tin openers

SuperSean11 · 10-01-2021 9:23pm

Voting for Fianna Fáil

Gloomtastic! · 10-01-2021 9:35pm

Your dog does a crap outside, you pick it up with your poop bag and eventually put it in the bin. You don’t leave the bag there. It’s plastic. It’s going nowhere!

I’ll never understand what’s going through their heads........

Pherekydes · 11-01-2021 12:43am

Putting on socks.

Aging sucks.

11-01-2021 12:44am

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Rock , paper scissors !! I never got it

Scissors cuts paper

Paper cover rock

Rock breaks scissors

De Bhál · 11-01-2021 12:54am

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.

khaldrogo · 11-01-2021 12:56am

Wet your fingers first

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.

11-01-2021 1:00am

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.

30 days have september,april,june and november

Theres a kind of a rhymes to it,thats how i remember anyway

Pherekydes · 11-01-2021 1:03am

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.

30 days hath September, April, June, and November. All the rest, etc...

Simple things you struggle with

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