What are you bad at doing?

Having said all that about not being able to create a pretty room etc....just yesterday I was looking on a few website to get a rough idea of how much houses are being sold for in my area.. and suddenly I saw a house which looked really lovely..and very cosy... and it took me a minute to realise it was mine. :D I'd listed my house with an Estate agent earlier in the year when I first started my search for a new house...but then I took it off, but they still had it on their website online but without a price..
 

hollydolly said:
Crafts...I am absolutely useless at traditional''girly'' crafts. I don't sew, I don't make jewellery, cards, pretty ribbon things.. arranging flowers.. I'm absolutely useless at all that....

I'm also very bad at seeing something in my imagination.. so I'm not good at creating a beautiful room..etc...
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Like hollydolly I don't do any of those things! I also have little imagination.
 

I'm no good at reading maps, paper or google.
I also dislike reading instructions, whether it's hooking up a new landline phone, or trying to build something.
I'm no good at applying make up. So, I've never really worn a lot of it. Just eyeliner, mascara and lipstick. And, that just when I used to go out. Now my face is bare, except for facial lotion.

To be con't.....
 
Trish said:
Waiting - I get impatient when I'm kept waiting - you know, when you have an appointment time and are then kept waiting for ages? It's especially annoying because I hate being late for anything so, I will invariably arrive early anyway. :(
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I hate it when a tradesman says they will be at your place at 12.o'clock and doesn't turn up, so I ring him, and he says he's sorry as he is held up at another job. I say, "fine just give me a message to say you're on the way', he says 'Will Do" and never turns up...!!!! GGRRRRR!!
 
I'm terrible at cooking. I frequently visit markets that have pre-prepared meals or something that just needs cooking on the stove or in the oven so I can prepare dinner each night. I can steam vegetables in the microwave. The sad thing is, I have no desire to learn to cook. Some of my friends love to cook and find it fulfilling, but I just think it takes time away from other things I can be doing outside the house.

I also have a terrible sense of direction. I've often lost my car in covered parking lots. I always use navigation when I go somewhere that isn't in my "bubble". I don't think this can be corrected.:ROFLMAO:
 
We are all not good at little to unfamiliar things that require skill. Also things that we don't see enough worthwhile benefit for if one does make an effort. So what the OP is really asking is what we are not good at that we've at least made an effort at. Note many of us are probably not good at things we tried and quickly realized further effort would be futile for the level we might pursue. Sports examples are golf, bowling, or shooting pool that I've played a little but never felt gaining skill had benefits for where my own life was going.

Well I''m quite ignorant of the kind of popular culture information people that watch Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuits are good at. Spent decades as an adult outside of sci-fi rarely watching all the historically popular TV shows of our generation. Oh, I've watched 5 minutes here and there of most TV comedies and dramas but rarely whole shows beyond my 20s. So yeah would score really bad on that show.

Also not familiar with most popular social card games outside of poker and blackjack.

My cooking is rather primitive. Have always had a poor attitude half jokingly expecting that would be something for my wife that due to circumstances never happened. Cooking is not something one can easily do in a residence that only has a stove top and microwave oven. I have no doubt that if I made an effort studying how to do so, that to reach a reasonable level would only require reading and experience.

I cannot understand science that requires a higher level of math than I've been exposed to. So will never understand quantum mechanics though I've certainly made an effort to reading Feynman and others. Likewise Faraday, Maxwell, Lorentz, Poincare, Einstein, Dirac and others work with higher levels of math that I long ago realized would be a wasted effort to pursue that requires starting at a time one is still in their teens.
 
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