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

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Spuddy Mon 10-Jun-24 11:51:16

1-No matter how many times I've tried it over the years I just can't cut pizza!

Whether the pizza base is hard or soft I can't cut them with a knife of any sort and I can't use actual pizza cutters either! Burning my fingers on a bit of hot pizza crust trying to hold it while hacking away at the pizza and bits come flying off all over the place! In public eateries I have the embarrassment of getting my hubby to cut it for me! Thankfully he's a gentleman and I never have to ask him, he just does it!

At home I use scissors! Ahhh, so much easier and quicker! Slice away! Slice away!

2-I can't use manual tin openers! Partly as I'm left-handed and most are for ''righties'' and partly because I just ... can't... anyway so out comes my trusted electric opener! I bought it second-hand for £5.00 from a German market stall in Birmingham City Centre almost 30 years ago and while it's now old and rusted and I can't clean it properly, it still works like new!

3- And don't get me started on paint rollers, the sort with one handle on one side! In my left or right hand I find them impossible!

ileea Thu 13-Jun-24 17:53:42

Dang it didn't include the message I was replying to.

Which was about practicing parking.

AskAlice Thu 13-Jun-24 18:29:33

Grow decent spring onions! Sow them, cover them, water them and they will be ready in a jiffy say all the gardening books and experts. Ideal for children to grow. No matter what I do, everything else in my veg beds grows as they should but the spring onions sulk and look pathetic for weeks and weeks and never do well.

haddersmum Fri 14-Jun-24 08:56:07

Download Merlin Bird ID, it identifies bird songs. Have found I have birds regularly in the garden which I have never seen.

Tootsy Fri 14-Jun-24 18:16:49

When I fall down I can't get up again. I have to press the alarm on my wrist for them to call my son to rescue me as I can't usually get to my phone either.

I am sure I also have Dyscalculia and will look for the test as mentioned earlier.

Try practicing reverse parking in a supermarket car park early evening when its light and empty.

EEJit Sat 15-Jun-24 19:50:51

When cutting hot pizza a stab it with a fork or hold it with a fish slice, then cut with a pizza cutter. Any bits I miss I use a knife