Things You Can't Do No Matter How Much You Try!

Macadia

I can't fold fitted (elastic) bed sheets.

I roll them up.

eddiecat78 - years ago I worked in cafes and restaurants and during busy times when we had multiple orders if I couldn't remember which plate was for which customer .... I worked in some weird ''greasy spoon'' places where there were no table numbers or anything! ... I'd make mental notes along with the physical ones so in my mind the table nearest the door was Number 1, wobbly table was number 2 etc.

With customers I'd remember ''such and such a meal for man with hand tattoo on table 3'', ''such and such a meal for woman with huge dangly earrings on table 7'' and so on and 9/10 times I was spot on when delivering the correct meals and drinks to the correct tables and customers!

Thankfully I had a good memory! HA!

Thanks a bunch to absolutely EVERYONE who made various comments, I've had some jolly good belly laughs!

I have one kitchen aid that annoys me because I am left handed. My electric carving knife has the cord attached to the right hand side so it gets in the way of me cutting anything . A centre one would be far better but I cannot bring myself to splash out for a new one.

I can't sing & would love to.
Can't play tennis despite years of tennis at school
Can't wrap presents so they don't look as if the dogs been at them.
Can't keep track of earrings & socks - lots of odds & v few pairs.

eddiecat78

When dishing out a meal for more than just the 2 of us I can't remember whose plate is whose!

If I’m dishing up in the kitchen (rather than serving dishes at the table) I put the plates in age order on the worktop

Throw a ball very far.
Whistle with 2 fingers.
Climb a rope.

I’m quite good at making cakes - it’s a hobby - but I’m blowed if I can slice them up evenly. I can never find the centre. I even bought a device once which looked like a torture instrument, and that didn’t work either.

I could never do a handstand or cartwheel as a child or any other gymnastic style moves and regret that I never tried hard enough.

Walk past an open packet of chocolate digestives.

That's an impossibility Fiorentina 51 🤣

So did I. I don't know one single left handed person. Unless I count the tennis players I watch on telly and there aren't many of those either.

I am the same with most of those. Oh ... and I can't drive full stop.

She mentioned being right handed because the previous poster was left handed. So it was to imply that even though she wasn’t left handed she was still struggling to do something.

Whistle, wink, crack my fingers, roll my rrrs, ride a bicycle one handed .....

Open my eyes underwater. Not in 65 years of trying.

Swim, no matter how many times I've tried.

I cut my pizza with a pair of scissors

Keep track of Tupperware lids.
Change a tyre.
Climb a rope.
Fast.
Eat dairy or gluten.
Lose my fear of spiders.

One thing I often don't do is screw a bottlectop on properly, because I'm left-handed. Left-handedness runs in families. I inherited it from my father. In his childhood left-handers were forced to write with the right hand. My DD is another left-hander, but neither of the GSs has inherited it.
I'm a pretty good knitter, but have never mastered Fair Isle.

I have never managed to make gelatin set properly.

Dismantling the roller brushes on my Vax carpet shampoo machine. Talk about "The Machine From Hell!" ( designed by a man, if you ask me, who has no intention of using one!)

LisaAN

I can‘t whistle on my fingers. Heaven knows I’ve tried

I've always wanted to be able to do that to attract my childrens' attention at a distance but never managed the whistle.

And I could never climb a rope either. Or run fast. Sometimes I have nightmares where I'm running away but simply running on the spot.

Bridie22 and MissInterpreted my husband really wanted to learn to swim so he could take our daughter. He also found that he sank. He even bought a snorkel and goggles, but they didn’t help.