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11. I can't touch-type...

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Fri May 23, 2014, 11:18 PM

May 2014

which awkward in my profession.

I can't crochet anything more than a single-crochet. This shames me.

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what seemingly normal skills did you never develop? [View all] fizzgig May 2014 OP

Your two and I'll up the ante with I can't blow a bubble with bubble gum Boomerproud May 2014 #1

i'll let you in on a dirty secret fizzgig May 2014 #3

I can't whistle. TexasTowelie May 2014 #2

i imagine you're quite adept at that fizzgig May 2014 #4

But I brake for bong hits! TexasTowelie May 2014 #7

That was what I was gonna say Tsiyu May 2014 #5

Once a towel, always a towel. TexasTowelie May 2014 #8

Just for you whistler162 May 2014 #79

Tpying. ChairmanAgnostic May 2014 #6

now that i can do fizzgig May 2014 #9

Red Cross survey finds half of Americans can't swim baldguy May 2014 #10

i couldn't swim for any real distance fizzgig May 2014 #12

I never properly learned begin_within May 2014 #19

I can't swim. murielm99 May 2014 #22

I can't touch-type... cyberswede May 2014 #11

i started learning to type when i was six fizzgig May 2014 #13

My first typing teacher was actually missing a finger. cyberswede May 2014 #14

I ave tis visio of im tpig bt leavig ot soe critical letters krispos42 May 2014 #81

Eyes on your own paper! Fridays Child May 2014 #15

ha! fizzgig May 2014 #17

ditto TeamPooka May 2014 #36

I attended the Hunting and Peck school whistler162 May 2014 #78

Applying make up, nail polish, dressing up like a girl, fixing up my hair csziggy May 2014 #16

i should have included that fizzgig May 2014 #18

My hair is too fine to have short unless it's very, very short csziggy May 2014 #43

LOL - I totally forgot about that. cyberswede May 2014 #20

I never have nice nails - they break off and splinter csziggy May 2014 #45

I can't blow up a balloon. LiberalElite May 2014 #64

I have yet to make a decent pancake (and I'm an old lady) HeiressofBickworth May 2014 #21

Same here Populist_Prole May 2014 #24

i'm not so hot at pancakes fizzgig May 2014 #27

Oh hell, where do I begin? Populist_Prole May 2014 #23

i can't run, either fizzgig May 2014 #28

That's alright Populist_Prole May 2014 #31

Don't know how to: Xyzse May 2014 #25

i can only spit sometimes fizzgig May 2014 #29

I can't drive. Chan790 May 2014 #26

i wish i did not need a car fizzgig May 2014 #30

Pig Latin R B Garr May 2014 #32

there's something i haven't thought of in a long time fizzgig May 2014 #50

fixing household items steve2470 May 2014 #33

i can do minor fixes fizzgig May 2014 #51

can't handmade34 May 2014 #34

i can't carry a tune in a bucket with a lid on it fizzgig May 2014 #52

Life Ron Obvious May 2014 #35

i fail at life quite often fizzgig May 2014 #53

Can't make gravy sarge43 May 2014 #37

try this gravy recipe fizzgig May 2014 #47

Thank you. I will give it a try. It doesn't sound strange at all. sarge43 May 2014 #58

Putting up with gross stupidity. hobbit709 May 2014 #38

i wish i didn't need to be so good at that fizzgig May 2014 #54

I usually have to make the L with my left hand to quickly tell lefts and rights. I was absent seaglass May 2014 #39

i took me forever to remember which way to flip the blinker when i was learning to drive fizzgig May 2014 #55

my problem, too. cant turn a key the right way on the first try mopinko May 2014 #68

Whistle. I suck at it. Or blow, I guess. Whatever... Inkfreak May 2014 #40

i dated a guy who rolled his own smokes and i'd spend so much time practicing fizzgig May 2014 #56

Parallel park. Swim. Ride bike. Walk with crutches. n/t UTUSN May 2014 #41

i need to get my bike cleaned up and take a ride fizzgig May 2014 #57

Painting. Le Taz Hot May 2014 #42

i learned how to use chop sticks at an early age fizzgig May 2014 #59

Normality. n/t malthaussen May 2014 #44

i can pull it off sometimes fizzgig May 2014 #60

I can't slide forward. I can only slide to the side. Iggo May 2014 #46

The art of small talk. femmocrat May 2014 #48

I swim like a rock. nt rrneck May 2014 #49

Me 2 - straight down. 840high May 2014 #67

I say "NO" and people hear "Yes." magical thyme May 2014 #61

Talking to people alarimer May 2014 #62

just ask them lots of questions. dawg May 2014 #76

I can't put a picture in a post Tribalceltic May 2014 #63

Well, in first grade, I flunked coloring....... lastlib May 2014 #65

Can't do a cartwheel or handstand. LiberalEsto May 2014 #66

I can't rollerskate or ride a bike. I did learn to ride a motorcycle, however, and enjoyed it Glorfindel May 2014 #69

I have zero coordination so Joe Shlabotnik May 2014 #70

cooking - everything I have ever tried, I suck at it Skittles May 2014 #71

I can't drive. GreenPartyVoter May 2014 #72

Well, I'm same as you about parallel parking.nt raccoon May 2014 #73

Being normal. n/t mzteris May 2014 #74

I never learned how to ask complete strangers on the beach if they wanted to have sex struggle4progress May 2014 #75

I cannot back up a trailer for shit. dawg May 2014 #77

I never learned how to Swim Wolf Frankula May 2014 #80

I can't do the damn Vulcan hand salute krispos42 May 2014 #82

I never learned to walk in high heels.. pink-o May 2014 #83