Name Your Weird Life Skill “Blind Spot”!

[AcesAndEights]

This should be fun. There are lots of “life skills” that, through experience and practice, most everyone gets the hang of. But no one gets the hang of ALL of them. We all struggle with something silly.

My sense of time is horrible.
“When did you last have blood work done?”
“Probably 2-3 years ago”
“Your chart says 2013”
“Oh”

When I make pasta, doesn’t matter if there are 2 or 20 people eating, I cook enough for 60.

And I can’t wrap presents. At all.

Fire away!

 

[ashdigger]

I don’t want to derail the thread with actual blind spots.

1- But my super power is that I’m an idiot savant.

I’m good at what I do, just don’t ask what day it is.

2- I have a photographic memory for things I care about and work.

Things that are just things, they go into the memory hole to be rapidly forgotten.

An example is the organization of my tobacco and pipes. They are things. They don’t have value or importance. Do I have nice pipes, yes, do I value them, not at all.

 

[anotherbob]

I have a supernatural ability to insert foot in mouth. I can meet someone and hone in on their sensitive sore spots without the slight bit of effort. If I ask how your mother is, she probably died horribly the day before. Not sure if that shouldn't be listed as a super power.

 

[chilllucky]

Despite having earned everything I have with hand skills, I am terrible at pouring things. I spill water filling the coffee pot every morning.

 

[anotherbob]

oh and people ask me for medical advice when they see me jotting things down with a pen.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I work with a guy that struggles mightily with left and right. You’re better off telling him it’s the door to the east rather than telling him it’s the door on the left.

 

[anotherbob]

I work with a guy that struggles mightily with left and right. You’re better off telling him it’s the door to the east rather than telling him it’s the door on the left.

hey I did too. You'd tell him something was to the left he'd hold up his hand pointer up thumb out to make an L. Sometimes he'd hold his hands up the wrong way round for it too work. Funny part really sharp guy but couldn't get left and right down.

 

[jaytex1969]

I knew a fellow who could sit in his garage and disassemble & fix Swiss pocket watches. He couldn't find his way to the corner store if he had a map and compass.

I can't navigate, tolerate or appreciate our entire health care and insurance industry. It makes my head hurt and my blood pressure spike.

I interact with that whole system as little as possible and only when beyond necessary.

 

[sablebrush52]

I can fix just about anything. I got my break into the film business by rebuilding the action on a 19th century Pleyel piano, carving the missing sections by hand, part after part. When I reassembled the action the new parts worked perfectly, and the owner got me a job at Universal Studios. When my parents' dryer stoped working I tore it down and rebuilt it and it never needed replacing. I did construction when I was young and learned all manner of stuff from rewiring houses to laying sheetrock, framing, etc. I can do fine casework. I did a lot of delicate restoration on antique jewelry.
But put me next to an automobile and ask me to do anything more than the simplest maintenance, like refilling the washer fluid, and a worldwide apocalypse could likely be the result.

 

[warren]

As I age time seems to compress. Something that happened ten years ago I recollect as two years past or so. As the OP observes, I can cook for one or twenty, that's it.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

For some odd reason, I've developed some mad skills in late life packaging things. Especially tobacco. Pipes & Cigars called me today about becoming their factory manager. I told them I would but I'd have to fire everybody in their warehouse.

 

[OzPiper]

I'm hopeless with anything IT.
My wife bans me from doing most tasks around the house because I have a meltdown when things don't work out, which is almost always.
Our older son took over fixing things around the house when he was 10yo because he was so much better than I. ?

 

[rmpeeps]

My superpower is “the best parking spot” and can price out a $3million gas processing plant, but I draw the line at troubleshooting electrical issues.
I ain’t burning down the house, but I might have the best spot to watch it from.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I'm hopeless with anything IT.
My wife bans me from doing most tasks around the house because I have a meltdown when things don't work out, which is almost always.
Our older son took over fixing things around the house when he was 10yo because he was so much better than I. ?

here you go bro:

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I've never learned to do laundry.. My mom did it then my wife did it.. then I was single and the cleaners did it.. now wife again.

Hell I don't even know how to turn the damn thing on.

 

[mawnansmiff]

For the life of me I've never mastered the art of getting a quilt into a quilt cover. My ex missus could do it in 15 seconds flat!

I never mastered reverse parking either but having a disabled badge allowed me to get away with that....usually .

Regards,

Jay.

 

[Brendan]

Does folding fitted sheets count, or is that just something men can't do.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

This is a good forum topic. Did you pull off to the side of the highway when "nature called" to start this thread? I'm pretty sure most here would agree that I have a skill for starting threads that serve to advance humanity. It's thankless work that pays nothing but the rewards come with the many insightful, thoughtful, inspiring and valueless responses which come after starting a thread. I am blessed.

 

[scloyd]

I can't name the planets without really concentrating about it.

I will list the planets now without Google:

Mars
Jupiter
Venus
Uranus
Earth
Saturn

That's it. If I sat here for an hour, I'd be able to get all nine eventually.

I'm not stupid, I just can't remember the planets...sort of embarrassing.

 

[scloyd]

Here's another...Pluto