Simple things you just can't do

[STe_rsv4]

remember names 10 seconds I have just been introduced to people and they have told me their name.

[Muzzer79]

Anagrams.

I'm great at the maths round on the Countdown TV show. But the letters round - absolute crap.

[croyde]

Muzzer79 said:

Anagrams.

I'm great at the maths round on the Countdown TV show. But the letters round - absolute crap.

I'm the opposite

My autistic son is a whizz at the maths bit. Shame that at 21 is that all he does is sleep all day and sit on his computer all night.

[SpudLink]

Muzzer79 said:

Touch my toes with straight legs.

I'm not just a short distance away - I can barely get halfway down my shins....

Never had a problem doing this. But I have never been able to sit with my legs crossed. I mean legs properly folded the way we were expected to do in assembly as kids.

[dillenger]

Walk the plank on oculus…lift doors open see the plank completely lose my mind ... along with ability to move... had the dam thing ages still never set foot on plank

[Fatboy]

snuffy said:

Tying shoelaces. I could not do it as a child, so what I learnt instead is to make two loops and tie them in a knot. 50 years layers and that's how I still tie them.

But I can tie a proper bow tie.

I have never been able to tie a bow tie, no matter what method i try, it's always a miserable failure...

[QuartzDad]

Feign interest.

[Hoofy]

croyde said:

My autistic son is a whizz at the maths bit. Shame that at 21 is that all he does is sleep all day and sit on his computer all night.

Building the next unicorn start-up, AmIRight?

[croyde]

Hoofy said:

croyde said:

My autistic son is a whizz at the maths bit. Shame that at 21 is that all he does is sleep all day and sit on his computer all night.

Building the next unicorn start-up, AmIRight?

I wish. He seems to be brilliant at using the damn thing, and constantly talks about others who have made fortunes online while he thinks it's a bind to turn up at his Universal Credit meeting once a week.

But I digress

[Monkeylegend]

Be romantic.

[parabolica]

Roll my Rs; years of speech therapy as a kid to removed the 'jonthan woss' effect only did so much, even 40 years later my brain still actively thinks of alternatives for R words as I'm talking.

[RicksAlfas]

parabolica said:

Roll my Rs; years of speech therapy as a kid to removed the 'jonthan woss' effect only did so much, even 40 years later my brain still actively thinks of alternatives for R words as I'm talking.

Username....doesn't check out.

[Tony Starks]

Things to impress my kids.

My daughter is a big Fabio Wibmer/Danny Mac fan and I'd love to show her how to wheelie or bunny hop, but I'm a dead weight on my bike and struggle to get the wheel off the ground myself.

And I'd love to teach my son football skills. But, I can do one keepy uppy before the ball dissappears over the neighbours fence

[geeks]

toon10 said:

Remembering people I've already met. I've offended countless people by saying nice to meet you to then get a funny look in return. That's when it dawns on me that I've already met them in the past. I had a full on conversation with my sister in laws new boyfriend recently about him once living in my town. Again, he looked confused when I was asking him about it. Turns out we'd already had this conversation a few weeks back. My brain doesn't seem to retain this stuff.

Yeah I am terrible with names, I am so grateful for remote working as everyone is labelled with a name on calls. In real life you can introduce yourself to me and I can promise you I have forgotten your name by the time the words "nice to meet you" have left my mouth!

[snuffy]

I can't click my fingers, or roll my Rs either.

Also, I can't whistle with my fingers, but I can whistle with my mouth in different positions so I can produce 3 quite different pitches and volumes.

[snuffy]

Fatboy said:

I have never been able to tie a bow tie, no matter what method i try, it's always a miserable failure...

What I do is made the bow loosely, and then pull end of the 4 ends a bit at a time. in turn, and it then tightens the knot.

[smithyithy]

Roller-skate in a buffalo herd.

[toon10]

geeks said:

Yeah I am terrible with names, I am so grateful for remote working as everyone is labelled with a name on calls. In real life you can introduce yourself to me and I can promise you I have forgotten your name by the time the words "nice to meet you" have left my mouth!

One of our neighbours is a lovely bloke. Always shouts my name and comes over for a chat. Our kids go to the same school, so we bump into each other a lot. I think it was about a year and a half before I stored his name in my memory banks. Until then it was always "hi bud.", "You OK fella?", etc.

[SamG40]

snuffy said:

I can't click my fingers, or roll my Rs either.

Also, I can't whistle with my fingers, but I can whistle with my mouth in different positions so I can produce 3 quite different pitches and volumes.

I can click my fingers with my left hand but not my right.

[Arnold Cunningham]

I can't run on a running machine. Used to be able to, but now, feel like I'm always about to fall off.