Is there something really simple that just never clicked for you?

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Like, it’s almost embarrassing how many times someone explained it, and I still don’t get it. For me, it’s tying a tie. I’ve watched tutorials, had people show me in person… still a mystery.

Anyone else have one of those things?

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  1. Responsible_Shoe392 Avatar

    Tying shoes, I can do it, it’s just there awalys lose and floppy and get untied very easy.

  2. fridgesmacker Avatar

    What a bitcoin is

  3. PoundComprehensive10 Avatar

    Taking keys off the fob

  4. PromptAcrobatic3186 Avatar

    Making rice with boiling water

  5. AcanthisittaOk1089 Avatar

    Being on time… For anything lol

  6. h4ndsom3d3vil Avatar

    How to load a dishwasher 🙃 I want to formally apologize to my nana for how many times she’s had to take over

    And how to fluff a fake xmas tree ?? Everytime I just seem to make it look worse then how it started

  7. Bradrb66 Avatar

    Fractions.

    It’s been explained to me forward and backward by my dad, a career Electrician, and my wife, a 4th grade teacher. None of it makes sense to me. Math in general, but the second my brain sees fractions, I’m having a bad time almost immediately.

    Don’t read this and think I don’t know how to use a tape measure or ruler. I came up with my own way to work that out, but don’t bother telling me what the lines mean. lol

  8. adj-n_number Avatar

    growing up I was the only person my mom would ask to taste-test the mashed potatoes since my ability to sense what it needed always ended up in a mash we all loved. I was like the potato whisperer, I was perfect at seasoning them, perfecting the texture, you name it. Thing is, I can’t actually make mashed potatoes for the fucking life of me. I’m a smooth mash girl and it’s always either chunky or gummy. I’ve tried an embarrassing amount of times. Now I just make potato soup because it’s all the same ingredients as a mash but essentially with way too much milk, you chuck it in the food processor and it tastes just like my fav mash but I don’t have to worry about it being gummy.

  9. Ariar Avatar

    I can never remember which is which, type 1 vs 2 error, 1st-3rd degree burns

  10. spiritdust Avatar

    Make homemade biscuits. Cooking without a recipe.

  11. The_Bookkeeper1984 Avatar

    Turning fractions into decimals

    Never got it, never will

  12. Comprehensive_Yak442 Avatar

    I still can’t navigate different screens on my smartphone. How do I make a phone call again from this screen? Where was I supposed to swipe? Thank god, I can bypass that with voice commands.

  13. AriasK Avatar

    I’m really good at maths. It comes easily to me. I don’t even need to think about it. Figuring out a maths problem is an instant and intuitive process in my brain. I was even three years ahead at school in maths. As a result, my parents assumed I would be good at Economics. They thought I would be an accountant or something similar and made me take it as a subject in high school. I couldn’t make sense of it at all. It didn’t matter how many times my teacher re explained, even the most basic, concepts. I simply couldn’t grasp it. It was too abstract. Too many variables. My brain simply doesn’t like that.

  14. twystedcyster- Avatar

    Playing an i instrument. I tried so hard. Once I got the basic 5 notes down and things started to get tricky I was totally lost. My grandma was a spectacular pianist and she tried to help. I think I’m missing that part of my brain.

  15. nevermindaboutthaton Avatar

    Subnet masks.
    I understand the theory and if I look it up I can even work out the required sets.
    But wait 10 mins and I will have forgotten it again.

  16. Prestigious-Fan3122 Avatar

    Tom it’s been years since his company went to “business casual” dress code, and he hasn’t had to wear a tie regularly since then, my husband is absolutely BEST at tying ties!

    I can do a very simple, basic tie. But his are always perfect, and he ties and more complicated not than I do.

  17. Hot-Ad930 Avatar

    How to shuffle cards. It’s been shown to me so many times. I can’t do it

  18. scorpionspalfrank Avatar

    Tying knots. It should be simple to learn and remember how to tie 3-4 different knots, but I cannot consistently even master one.

  19. teamturbo4life Avatar

    Telling my left from my right. I also get letters and numbers backwards so the “L” thing with the hand is useless.

  20. Lugubrious_Lothario Avatar

    Kinda struggling with subnetting right now. I can see there is a relationship between the numbers, and I’ve read the explanation dozens of times but it’s just not clicking. 

  21. IndomitableAnyBeth Avatar

    I suck at a riffle shuffle. Never been able to combine two equal stacks of cards side by side without taking huge unpredictable leaps. Technically speaking, this probably makes it more random, but I look utterly incompetent at shuffling.

  22. Mau_Mau_Pspsp Avatar

    Driving a manual car. It gives me too much anxiety.