So what valuable life skill have you NOT mastered?

[papie]

I can't:
Iron
Sew on a button (or anything really)

[Bergamot]

CPR

[notoriousmeg]

Drive a stick shift

[Deleted]

Sewing. I can't even do buttons.

[winnied]

CPR
Check my oil
Change a tire
Drive a manual
Heimlich maneuver
Calming my tits

[underwaterrhymes]

I can't sew or drive a stick shift.

I tried learning both, but failed miserably.

[mcsangel2]

Mar 8, 2014 22:07:18 GMT -5 notoriousmeg said:

Drive a stick shift

Ditto. I have read that manual transmissions are a dying breed amongst car manufacturers in the US, though.

[lilafowler]

I can't drive a stick, sew or iron.

I CAN parallel park though!

[wysiwyg]

Taking social queues and changing tires.

[zoidberg]

I can't drive a stick. My dad taught my older sister and younger brother, but i was learning to drive in the middle of their divorce so pretty much nobody taught me to drive at all (I got drivers ed at school and the minimum number of practice hours). Fortunately I was able to pass my test and have killed zero people.

[Champagne Supernova]

Drive a stick shift

Drive on the freeway

[lilafowler]

Mar 8, 2014 22:07:47 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

I can't sew or drive a stick shift.

I tried learning both, but failed miserably.

Soul sistah!

[zoidberg]

I am also very, very bad at parallel parking. Very bad.

[Deleted]

Really "manly" things
Really "womanly" things

[shoeless]

Ironing. I went to steaming cloths.

[Nonny]

Drive a stick proficiently. I drove my H's car around some parking lots, and drove a drunk friend home, but I think in all cases I never got out of second gear. The likelihood of me stalling the car is very high.

[sugarbear]

I can't really cook. I mean, I can get by, and I can certainly read a recipe, but I'm lazy and not creative.

Good thing DH does all the cooking.

[Deleted]

Everything listed in this thread so far.

[So_Fetch]

Get saran wrap to stick to anything except itself.

Sent from my SCH-I535 using proboards

[jenna]

Any type of basic car maintenance - oil change, tire change, etc.

I can drive a stick shift, though.  Learned my Jr year of college, and drove one for years.  I miss my MR2.

[cbwm1]

Changing a tire
Driving stick

I learned how to do it, but I SUCK at parallel parking

[Deleted]

I can't drive a stick either. Dh has tried to teach me like 5 times and I always throw a temper tantrum. It's kinda pathetic.

[CurlyQ284]

I cant parallel park or drive stick shift. No car maintenance.

[zoidberg]

H has kind of taught me to drive a stick, but I can only do it in a parking lot. I am petrified of having to do it on a street with other cars and then stalling in the middle of an intersection or something.

[noodle]

Drive stick.

When I owned a car and drove regularly, I was an adequate parallel parker.  Haven't owned a car in over a decade and while I'm still a really good driver, I'm scared to try parallel parking.  I think I've done it once in 10 years.  But maybe I would not completely fail...

[Kore]

Impulse control. I have none.

I also suck at hand jobs, for some reason.

[hisno1girl]

driving a stick. I don't see it as a necessary life skill, though. I can't see a situation where I would have no other option.

[zoidberg]

Mar 8, 2014 22:22:41 GMT -5 hisno1girl said:

driving a stick. I don't see it as a necessary life skill, though. I can't see a situation where I would have no other option.

Yeah. I'm 36 and have never been in a "drive stick or you're screwed" situation. But whatever. Other people seem to think it is very important.

[papie]

I can drive stick, but I agree that I can't think of many situations where you need to. You can find automatic cars to rent in most countries nowadays.

[tigress]

Mar 8, 2014 22:26:45 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Mar 8, 2014 22:21:12 GMT -5 @cse1960 said:

Ah, but you need to redefine valuable life skills. No one needs saran wrap, and if it won't work for you, well, that's a product flaw, nothing more. lol 
Just get some aluminum foil. 

Yeah, Saran wrap/cling wrap is dumb. I use foil for everything. I also call it "tin foil," which is apparently an old person thing according to my mom.

I saw tin foil or aluminum foil. And press and seal is my savior.