What are you REALLY bad at?

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What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:18am

I am one of the "paint" impaired. I cannot paint a wall, never could do paint-by-numbers, am not allowed near any type of paint on threat of divorce (if we were allowed by law to marry).
When I try, by hands and arms take on a life of their own, and things get painted that should not........hence the blue-headed cat long ago.

What are you REALLY bad at?

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:21am

Averaging. It's so simple, but I have never averaged anything correctly in my life. I don't even know how I mess it up.

#3

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:26am

I can't drive a car or ride a bicycle.

#4

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:29am

Sports. Of all kinds. (Except figure skating.)

Then again, who *wants* to run around and get all sweaty and dirty and possibly break things when you could read a book or whip up a soufflé?

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:30am

Math. Choreographed dancing.

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:33am

Anything associated with visual arts. Can't paint, can't draw, can't sketch...nothing.

#7

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:33am

All of the above except bike riding and art. Those are about all I can do.

Updated On: 3/4/05 at 10:33 AM

#8

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:36am

When I gave up after my 30th driving lesson, my mother said. "But you MUST be able to drive! You're musical!"

Go figure.

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:37am

"But you MUST be able to drive! You're musical!"

That's what I get when I say I suck at math.

#10

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:41am

Sports. I throw like a girl. Maybe because I am one, but who knows?

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:42am

When I went to college and had to take music theory, I discovered to my great dismay that it IS math...

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:44am

I was kicked out of Driver's Ed. Top that.

Falsetto, gym classes usually go like this.

*balls sails in nia's direction*
*nia ducks to avoid meeting the ball face-to-face, as it has gone right by her*
nia: (to nearest person) Are you gonna get that?

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:45am

Don't you hate how they make you love music with all it's awesomeness and then they SNEAK in the math when it's too late?!

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"We are engaged in two wars, one on drugs and one on terror, that can never be won. I mean, one is a group of inanimate objects and the other is an emotion. We might as well fight a war on pasta, which I guess the Atkins people are actually doing."

#14

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:45am

Driving in reverse. I can park and that's it

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:49am

Nia (I'm gathering that's you, I'm Sally, btw) we are SO lucky we never played ball together cause some other slob would have to chase after it LOL

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"We are engaged in two wars, one on drugs and one on terror, that can never be won. I mean, one is a group of inanimate objects and the other is an emotion. We might as well fight a war on pasta, which I guess the Atkins people are actually doing."

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:51am

Falsetto- Nia is my bww nickname, it's shorter than typing 'insomniak' every time. And I don't do the sweating thing. Not in gym class.

Spooky, you and I can write a book on that. alklasrhoihbj!

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 10:52am

I'm also really bad at sports and the visual arts. I'm not really good at much except singing. Imagine how popular I was in school...

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#18

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:26am

Apparently, I am god-awful with accents. Except southern ones. On occasion, I get into the groove on an Irish one too but that's about it.
I also am very bad at taking out the trash.

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:28am

Singing
Dancing
Acting
Doing long division, or any sort of math in my head. I need to write it all down.
Drawing, painting, visual arts in general
Sports
Parallel parking
Being organized
Cooking
Making decisions
Getting work done

yeah, I suck, don't I?

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Updated On: 3/4/05 at 11:28 AM

#20

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:31am

Emcee, you make it sound as if you're a walking disaster and I know you're not! So stop it!

#21

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:31am

You know I am. BUT, you know what I am good at? Painting toe nails.

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re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:36am

WALKING

#23

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:38am

Parallel Parking.

#24

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:56am

well mine is not permanent...I can walk again in 3 weeks...

I'm really bad at relationships. I'm too shy and don't say how I feel enough...then I say how I feel and that makes everything worse...

#25

re: What are you REALLY bad at?

Posted: 3/4/05 at 1:01pm

Drawing - I can barely draw a stick figure. I have no sense of perspective, but then my unusual eyesight also inhibits depth perception, so that might have something to do with it.

Physics - I'm great at math until you apply it to real life. Then I get completely lost. I only got through finite math and applications because our incompetent professor passed everyone who didn't drop the course and curved the final 30 points.

Pool - I'm so bad at pool, people pay me not to play.

I'm actually pretty good at most sports. I just don't like to play them.

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