What things are you not good at doing?

Playing pool. I almost destroyed my BFF's father's pool table when my husband was trying to teach me. Then we went on vacation and he was trying to teach me again. I got so upset and frustrated because he just didn't get why I couldn't play, that I left out of the pool hall damned near in tears. I'm also not good at bowling but I love it. I haven't been bowling in decades, except on my bowling app, but I remember having problems with curve balls that wound up in the gutter. It also didn't help that I'm ambidextrous and never could figure out which was the best hand to bowl with. I get much higher scores on my app. :)
 
mrstime said:
Truthfully, I am not good at much.
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Who was it that told you that and when? It’s not so important that we be good at many things.
In the end, we all are good at something. It looks to me as if you spell well and you know how to put a comma in its place. That’s something that not everyone is good at but you seem to excel. Not every one of us will have much effect on the world at large but we all have a part to play. 😉
 

What things are you not good at doing?​


Chasing food around my plate with chopsticks, they are the most stupid of eating impliments. One time, in a Chinese restaurant, I must have covered about twenty miles trying to grab the last piece of rice. I always take a spoon with me now. 😊
 
Bretrick said:
I am sure you are great at many things.
You simply do not acknowledge your strengths.
Chin up and give yourself a pat on the back because you have been great at surviving
this world which is fraught with dangers at any turn
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I used to be good at a lot of things, but physical problems keep me from doing much besides sit and play games or otherwise fart around on my computer. Today my big job was cleaning the microwave.........it needed it a month ago.
 
Anything to do with numbers. Math was my worse subject all through school. If they hadn't pushed me through I'd still be in third grade.
I have no sense of direction.
Can't dance but really don't care.
Sewing. I've been trying to master that since I bought my sewing machine a few years ago. I keep trying but I think sometimes you have to realize its not going to happen and move on.
Its not fun anymore when all it does is end in frustration.
 
I recognize parts of myself in your posts - :)

Things that I am not good at doing:
-I have no sense of direction. Before GPS, I used to spend a long time reading maps.
-Keeping boundaries. I tend to be intuitive and right away when I meet a stranger, I know a lot about them and can feel
their pain or stress (sometimes this is good, but not all the time!).
-Knowing when a relationship is not good for me, particularly friends that are toxic. I feel sorry for them, but ignore
my own feelings in the relationship. This can cause me pain, and in the end, I feel spent.
 
I'm not good at dealing with most managers, my instant emotional response is hostile, defensive, etc. They are so frequently micro-managing idiots having very low ethics and having huge egos and unlimited arrogance. The best I can do when interacting with them is keep my mouth shut and hope I appear cooperative, then I go away and spend the rest of the day angry and demoralized and refusing to help anyone and telling everyone that nothing matters anyway.
I'm always very impressed by people who can respond to them in a beautifully professional way, or one manager I had who responded to a higher manager's ridiculous expectations in a meeting by chuckling.
 
Today's technology, it just blows me away. How I both hate, yet am envious, of those that can point a smart phone at some sort of reader and pay for their purchases. Worse, when a forum member here has this, that or the other problem, someone with the technical nous comes on and explains in complete and fluent, gobble-de-gook, how to overcome said problem. It just blows me away.

It's even more frustrating when I read that computer science is more or less, knowledge of both mathematics and physics, two subjects that I excelled at both at school and college. Why can't I get my head around it?
 
I'm horrible at figuring out my Android phone. For some reason I can practically take apart a computer and put it back together, but I still can't figure out how to put someone on hold on my phone.
 
Speaking another language. I've been trying to learn Spanish. My son lives in another State and speak Spanish - he has taught me a little Spanish.
 

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