Is there something you don't know how to do, or don't know about, (Or recently didn't know about.) and that you're embarassed to admit?

I didn’t know what WW2 was about (or any war lol) until last year. I knew people fought, but I didn’t know why or what started it lol.

I also didn’t know how to swim until I went to bootcamp.

I don’t know how to swim or drive and find neither of these things embarrassing.

More than anything, I get teased for not knowing how to ride a bicycle. I’ve ceased mentioning this to people because their reactions are annoying.

I’m colorblind, but I didn’t know what colorblindess was until I was like 12, so in kindergarten I was always “aww, man, why can’t I fucking learn the colors D:”.

Kindergarten sucked.

I’ve never had a job. I guess it’s kind of embarrassing, but not that embarrassing.

Mathematics. It’s always taken a lot of effort for me to learn math, and now I find myself able to handle nothing more complicated than moderately difficult algebra. Perhaps if I were to start studying again, I might improve.

Math, even simple addition and subtraction. Judging Distance. Determining cardinal directions.

The third one is kind of funny. I almost always just know where North is, but mix up East and West all the time. And before you say it, no, I don’t know which way is “left” half the time either. I use “hot water side” as a descriptor more often than not. ^_^

I’m a horrible swimmer. I know how, I’m just bad at it.

I don’t know how to drive a stick, and I have no intent to learn, either.

I am physically incapable of jumping on a pogo stick.

Try as I might, I cannot blow a bubble with gum. I’ve tried many times, to no avail.

@Seek_Kolinahr I don’t know my directions either. My dad taught me a trick; if you get lost, just look for tall buildings on the horizon, or far away lights, and get down there lol.

Turnicate = Tourniquet

@Seek_Kolinahr At our house, the plumber installed the lever on the kitchen sink backwards. “Hot water side” will get you cold water. :D

Springfield, MO is an excellent place to learn cardinal directions; the entire place is built on a grid, and there’s exactly one skyscraper.

^ Well then I’m screwed.

It’s not a matter of learning. I’m dyscalculic. My brain isn’t wired to process that information accurately. Sometimes I get it, sometimes I don’t. I can learn the layout of the city pretty easily after I’ve driven the same roads in the same pattern a few times; it’s following instructions that’s difficult.

Math. I’m horribly self-conscious about my lack of ability to remember it. If I’m taught, I can do it no problem, but ask me a week later to do it again and I won’t remember how. I still don’t even know all of my multiplication tables.

I’ve lived in the same city most of my life and I still can’t give directions. I don’t do streets – I go by landmarks, which most people hate.

I don’t have my license. I know how to drive, I just don’t have my license yet. I don’t know why, especially because I hate public transportation.

I’m another who finds left/right and east/west to be a bugger. I use “driver’s side/passenger side” which means in Europe, I’ll be screwed.

I can’t drive due to my disability and for the same reason I’m incapable of catching anything (except a cold).

I can’t lay the palm of my hand flat against the upper part of the shoulder of the same arm.
E.g., I can’t lay the palm of my right hand against that part of my right shoulder and I can’t do that on the left side either.

I don’t know why that is and everyone else that I’ve seen try to do it has succeeded.

But still I persevere and live my life to the fullest! :-P

@Brian1946 I can’t do that either. My palm won’t reach my shoulder at all. Clearly we have shorter-than-average forearms (that would explain why sleeves are always too long for me).

@downtide

Can you place the palm of your hand against your bicep?

I can’t move my forearm close enough to my arm for my hand to touch any part of my arm or shoulder.
I.e., when I try to do that, my forearm stops when it forms about a 45º angle with my arm.

I have absolutely no idea how to dry dishes.I mean it’s completely beyond me. At least that’s what I tell the wife. Well, I do it occasionally but do it sloppily & slowly.That way she doesn’t ask again. Genius! I’m not really embarassed about it, more apprehensive if she ever read this. Pan + Head = Twat!! :¬)

Tweeting. Sorry, kids, I’m pretty tech-savvy, but I just don’t get it.

I still can’t swim!

Two items: i have never had the chicken pox and i just discovered that one of my neighbors has just fallen off the drug wagon. she is back on cocaine and will probably lose her children this time.

i can’t do 90% of the things on my cell phone without my daughter nearby. It’s a bit embarrassing in company when ti rings loud and I can’t change it to vibrate. And most other tech stuff.

I can’t swim and was rescued at church camp for almost drowning. They AND Girl Scout camp tried to teach me.
My “work history” consists of one year as a secretary.
I can only whistle, barely, by inhaling.
I’m such a dork.

I’d love to be able to whistle really loudly. Like the people who put 2 fingers in their mouth and get that really high pitched, loud whistle. I have no idea how to do it. And nobody has been able to explain to me how.

@Brian1946 I can’t do that either. I can just touch my shoulder with my fingertips, can’t touch any lower down my arm at all.

@GladysMensch – me neither

I have never, ever been able to learn to spell restaurant. Not kidding – it took me two tries on this post before the little red underline went away…

I have never been able to whistle at all. And if you drive me somewhere, plop me down and ask where north is, I have no idea!

I’m amazed at the number of people who can’t swim. It was nearly instinctual for me. Weird.

I can do the real loud whistle thing. Any techies out there want to trade skills?

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities

Same. I was taught as early on as possible.

And speaking of whistling, I didn’t know how to whistle until my 17th birthday (literally, the day of). So that was embarrassing for a while…

@JilltheTooth

Lmao! I think I totally understand your priorities there.
In one way it’s like choosing between being Bill Gates or the world’s second best bird imitator. ;-)

I can swim but I still can’t walk on water.

@Austinlad Haha, loser! ~

Until last month sometime, I didn’t know why a T-shirt was named as such. Then I thought about it for a minute. Duh.