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

Another person here with zero navigational skills. If there is a choice of turnings I will always take the wrong one. I can find my way to a new destination but then can't find my way back. Drives my husband mad. If I am lost I have no idea which general direction I should be going. Map reading is an anathema to me, thanks to GPS the number of arguments we had while travelling is greatly reduced.

Pantglas2

I use ordinary strong kitchen scissors to cut pizza as I have limited room in my drawers (😉) for gadgets!

I can’t read a map unless I turn it the way I’m going which drives Mr PG mad 😡 - I can read upside down though which means I always make the right calls as navigator (and that makes him madder still 🤬!

I also am hopeless with maps, only slightly better if they are the right way round. If you were to plonk me in a strange town with a map I would virtually always end up at the opposite end to my destination.
Most satnavs turn the map so that they are facing the way you are going so this is obviously the right way to do it!

No matter how hard I try, I can’t get my DH to… put his shoes in the shoe rack, get up and put empty crisp packets, sweet wrappers etc in the ( nearby) bin or empty the dirty water after washing up 🤣🙄

I cannot ride a bike. Re pizza: I take scissors with me to the restaurant - if it's not pre-sliced, I do not care who sees me have at it...

mae13

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!)

I can't replace the drive belts on our Bissell carpet washing machine either. I have no idea why they can't design machines so that you can do everyday servicing easily.

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.

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.

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.

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!)

I have never managed to make gelatin set properly.

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.

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

I cut my pizza with a pair of scissors

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

That's an impossibility Fiorentina 51 🤣

Walk past an open packet of chocolate digestives.

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.

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.

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

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