What Can't You Do?

I have huge problems thinking in 3 dimensions.
Anything that takes assembly, and has sidedness, is a real challenge for me.

 

Instant answer for me is: swim
I learned how to float on my back and barely swim right before going to boot camp via lessons at the local pool, but the first time I was ever off a diving board was at Great Lakes. That was easily the hardest and scariest part of the whole thing despite knowing there were divers in the pool that had to save me from what could have been a drowning in other environments. I was able to break the surface and float on my back long enough to pass on the second try, but never have been near a diving board since and no desire to get in water over my head without some type of life vest.
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One in the "getting old/broken down" category - Jump (at least nowhere near how I used to)
Back in high school I could grab the rim easily even on a bad day. Mind you, this is when I actually cared about such things. I am grateful to walk without discomfort in my knees or occasionally feet now, and couldn't care less about grabbing a basketball rim or blocking a shot (that part was fun though)

 

This thread makes me feel better about my room temperature IQ and average looks.

I can knock out two dozen pullups on a bad day. Stupid human tricks, no?

 

I am a package wrapping machine. Just the other morning, my wife was on her way out the door and was complaining that she hadn't wrapped a present for a colleague. In the time it took for her to put her shoes on, I had that thing wrapped and presentable.

As for what I can't do, poached eggs. I never get it right. I've tried everything short of those stupid microwave cups and just can't get them to come out right. So, I just make perfectly soft boiled eggs and use them like poached.

 

Alton Brown has an amazing recipe for poached eggs. Comes out perfect every time.

 

@noodle, tried it and messed it up.

I think it's just a mental block for me.

 

I can wrap presents and I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't know how to swim.

But I cannot sing.
Well, it might be more accurate to say that I can sing (and often do) just not very well.

I can't play any video games that involve driving. Total ineptitude.

I know there are other things, but I'm too tired to think of them right now.

 

I can do driving ones.
I canNOT do the shooting and button-mashing games.
I totally suck at those. Except Primal Rage at the arcade. And I think that one is just luck.

 

I call bullshit on this. You're probably smarter than me. And I have an IQ in the triple digits.

 

Listen, the worst thing a society can allow is an inflated sense of intelligence. I'm not a genius. I recognize and accept this.

Another thing I can't do? Pump myself up on the idea that I'm an exceptional snowflake. I'm not.

TFP has medical practitioners, lawyers, scientists and musicians.

I bring nothing of serious value to the table.

And, really, it's okay. I sell toilets.

Somebody has to it.

 

oooOooOooooo....Reminded by Kramus... I also, can NOT catch anything thrown at me. Nor can I dodge it. Creepily enough, I hit anything I throw something at, right where I want it to land, and have brilliant aim with firearms of all types, and all distances I've attempted. But yeah, if you throw it at me, it's just gonna hit me and bounce off and have me standing there looking at you stupidly because I CANT catch. It's bad enough that if one of my nieces or someone too young to KNOW I can't catch anything, throws something at me and I DO catch it - the adults nearby applaud.
I am also incapable of being late. If you are running behind and I am your ride, I mean running behind by even 30 seconds, I WILL leave you because I can not be late. I am one of those people that will creepily sit in my car for 45 minutes before something starts, because I must not ever be late. It made me a wonderful asset to the company when I drove limousine, but can be REALLY annoying to people that are a part of my daily life.
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OMG... I have spent so much time in Second Life that watching television and movies annoys me to the point of wanting to take a baseball bat to the screen because I Can't cam around behind things and look at things that aren't currently in the shot on the screen.

 

GODDAMNIT, PHIL COLLINS GOT ME AGAIN.

Ugh, I'm totally in American Psycho mode now.

 

Neither can I, not all the time.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter much any more. I can stay home and vegetate for days, if I want. My paycheck is direct deposited.

I never thought so much could happen just reading TFP.

 

I can't crack someone else's back. I'd love to have that touch, but I just don't.

 

I can’t watch an entire football game. I may have watched a whole Super bowl, but other than that I don’t think I have watched a whole game from beginning to end, like ever. Never.
I can't take orders.