What are you bad at doing?

Feelslikefar said:
Reading peoples intention.

Way to trusting.

' A Man's Word Is His Bond' was something I was taught, but not always I found out.
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That was one of my failings as well. Got burned continually until I learned that so many people put up a false facade purely to get what they want,
I had to harden my heart to avoid the heartache of betrayal
 

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WheatenLover said:
My daughter does that for me, too. My oncologist just about had a conniption fit when I told her I was forcing myself to do things. Apparently, that is not a good thing for healing. So I stopped, but it feels all wrong. I spend time wondering if I am just lazy since I'm not getting on with it.
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Know the feeling. Some of us got too big a dose of 'work ethic' and have had to learn how to gieve ourselves a break.
 
Anything to do with math. I can't even measure correctly. I still use my fingers for counting.
Am I going north, south, east or west? I certainly don't know.
Trying to figure out if something is straight or not. I've spent hours trying to straighten a picture frame.
Over organizing. How many times in a year do you really have to organize the silverware drawer.
 
very bad at recognising faces... I suffer from a moderate form of Prosopagnosia.. . I can only recognise a face if I've seen it lots of times and in the same place. If someone I've met only a few times approaches me away from the place to which I connect them, I won't recognise them.

I couldn't recognise my own baby when she was in hospital, and always worried each time that she was released from hospital after a procedure than I'd got the wrong child...even when I went to collect her from school, standing at the school gates she'd be the one running up to me and saying ''mum didn't you recognise me''? Thank goodness my daughter looks like a mix between her dad and me otherwise I might still have doubts..

It's been a real bind all my life.. people are always accusing me of being stuck up and ignoring them in the street , when in fact i just don't recognise them
 
debodun said:
Listening to good advice.

I can't figure out why I beg people for advice and seldom follow the suggestions.
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There is hardly anyone IRL whom I ask for advice. Coming here has been a real blessing because I get good advice. I think asking others for advice is a good thing, so one doesn't get stuck in one's head, unable to make a decision or making the wrong one, in hindsight. Even though I try to think of everything pertinent to the problem, I don't always do it. Also, my reasons for doing something may not be sound, because I want to avoid a consequence that is actually not mine to avoid.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
Over organizing. How many times in a year do you really have to organize the silverware drawer.
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I fall prey to that impulse, too. I have two very large drawers of cooking utensils and such, and a huge container for them on the counter. Today or tomorrow, those drawers are being reorganized. Everything that we don't use often or have multiples of, gets put somewhere else.

I recently organized the silverware drawer. My daughter moved in with silverware, and I already had some. Hers is ugly and cheap looking, so I put in a storage baggie and hid it. Right now, the big question is should the ice-cream scoop go in there? The drawer is very large and it is next to the fridge, where the ice-cream is located. OTOH, would it be better off with the utensils, because it is one? This has to be the epitome of first world problems.
 
1. Being interesting.
2. Being likable.
3. Anything of a creative nature.
4. Making anything look nice (or attractive or pretty or whatever), including myself when younger; now I don't care much what I look like.
5. Cooking (i.e., making anything taste good).
6. Trying to enjoy any kind of physicality.
 
mrstime said:
I'm pretty well bad at everything these days. My body has betrayed me. However I have learned that I understand why so many old folks seem to accept death with good grace.
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I agree. My body, espec. here lately, seems to be falling all over itself to try to make something new hurt or stop working right more and more everyday. And like the old folks you mentioned, death is not only something I accept and in fact look forward to some days.
 
hollydolly said:
You know what I think Pinks ?...I believe that if you're a decent person yourself, it just never occurs to you that others will be anything but decent back to you... and it's such a shock and a letdown when they prove themselves to be the opposite of what we believe...
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Boy ainā€™t that the truth!

iā€™m bad at doing my own taxes

I filled in the forms one year and got one figure on the wrong line.

I got mailings from the ā€˜gub-mentā€™ telling me I
ā€œneeded to fill out these forms for farm subsidiesā€

never lived even near a farm in my life, lol

since then, the accountant dies the job!
 
  • My sense of north is ass-backwards, so I can get lost pretty easily in a big building, or even a small building, or in the woods.
  • I can't bowl worth a damn.
  • I have a bad memory.
  • I tried for a few months, but couldn't learn to play the piano. I just couldn't remember all the chords and notes.
  • I suck at interpersonal relationships. At this point in my life, I'd rather hang out with my dog than with any people other than my wife.
  • I can never do anything right the first time. Seem the only way I can learn is by making mistakes.
  • I'm not good at tying up loose ends when I work on a project.
  • I suck at drywall work, or at least that was the case the last time I tried.
  • ... and many more...
 
Staying silent when I should :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

However, I am working on it. But its hard when you see the writing on the wall and you try to get others just to take a peek. Therefore, I am learning to take a step back.. not easy at all. I truly want the best for others. I have a hard time when I see people taking advantage of others.. Again, I am working on it. Took me years to get to this place in my life, therefore I understand others have to get to that place in their life.
 
Don M. said:
"Timing" the Stock Market. Nearly every time I've made a move, in the past, I've guessed wrong. Things seem to go better if I just leave the investments alone.
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I have never had any involvement with the stock market.
Always remember the stock market crashes where investors lose so much money.
I find it too risky. Plus how does one choose what stocks to invest in?
 
Ladybj said:
Staying silent when I should :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

However, I am working on it. But its hard when you see the writing on the wall and you try to get others just to take a peek. Therefore, I am learning to take a step back.. not easy at all. I truly want the best for others. I have a hard time when I see people taking advantage of others.. Again, I am working on it. Took me years to get to this place in my life, therefore I understand others have to get to that place in their life.
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I too speak up when I see someone standing over others.
Many a time I have stepped in and put the stand over merchant in their place.
In doing so, the victim has thanked me with true gratitude.
 
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